Ascomycota

Definitions of Ascomycota
  1. noun
    a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi
    synonyms: Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycotina
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    (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
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