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Ascomycota
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Ascomycota, n.
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Ascomycota, n.
a phylum of higher fungi, coextensive with the class Ascomycetes . It comprises Hemiascomycetes; Plectomycetes; Pyrenomycetes; Discomycetessac fungi; in some classification systems it is considered a division of the kingdom Fungi. [WordNet 1.5]
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