order secotiales

English Thesaurus

1. an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus order,
definition	:	the order of fungi (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	family secotiaceae, secotiaceae,
definition	:	a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	class gasteromycetes, class gastromycetes, gasteromycetes, gastromycetes,
definition	:	fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi (noun.plant)