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order Uredinales

order Uredinales

9.9
Fungi that live on plants and cause rust disease
  • noun
  • Specialized
: orden Uredinales
  • The order Uredinales includes many species that affect crops.

Examples

  • Scientists study members of the order Uredinales to develop better methods of disease control.

  • The distinctive orange spores are characteristic of fungi classified within order Uredinales.

  • Many crops can be threatened by order Uredinales infections, leading to significant agricultural losses.

  • Many researchers study the order Uredinales to find ways to combat rust diseases.

  • Many crops can be threatened by order Uredinales infections, leading to significant agricultural losses.

  • The distinctive orange spores are characteristic of fungi classified within order Uredinales.

  • Scientists study members of the order Uredinales to develop better methods of disease control.

Synonyms

Uredinales
vsorder Uredinales
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of fungi that live on plants and cause rust disease

is the same but labels the taxonomic rank explicitly

Surface Forms

order Uredinales singular
order Uredinales plural

Morphology

order + Uredinales

The phrase is compositionally built from 'order' (a taxonomic grouping) and 'Uredinales' (the name of a fungal order), so its meaning as a taxonomic group of rust fungi is directly inferable from the constituents. Even though 'Uredinales' is a technical proper name, the syntactic and semantic pattern (taxonomic rank + name) is cross-linguistically regular and transparent to learners who know the parts.

Etymology

The name order Uredinales comes from the rust-like spots these fungi make on plants, because their orange or red spores look like metal 'rust', so people grouped these fungi that attack plants under that name. That's why order Uredinales means the group of fungi that cause rust disease in plants.