kingdom fungi

Noun
  1. The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools;
    Distinct from the green plants (synset 113013224)
    associated with:
    • tremella reticulata - a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi)
    • annulus, skirt - (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
    • saprophytic - (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
    is a type of: kingdom - the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia
    member holonym:
    • fungus family - includes lichen families
    • fungus genus - includes lichen genera
    • fungus order - the order of fungi
    • division gymnomycota, division myxomycota, gymnomycota, myxomycota - slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista
    • phycomycetes, phycomycetes group - a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems
    • division lichenes, lichenes - comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi
    • fungus - an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia
    • division eumycota, eumycota - true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
    same as: fungi, fungus kingdom

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