family Pucciniaceae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

family Pucciniaceae - large important family of rust fungi Pucciniaceae fungus family - includes lichen families order Uredinales, Uredinales - rust fungi: parasitic fungi causing rust in plants; sometimes placed in genus Puccinia, Puccinia - type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants genus Gymnosporangium, Gymnosporangium - genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae