Definition of "ascomycetes" []

• Plural form of ascomycete. (noun)

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• "Two of his favourite mushrooms are truffles and morels, members of the important ascomycetes group of funghi, which also includes yeasts as well as the mould Penicillium chrysogenum from which penicillin is derived."
• "All ascomycetes produce asci at some stage in their life cycle."
• "Or was it one of the gasteromycetes, the coniomycetes, the hyphomycetes, the ascomycetes, or one of the physomycetes?"