Definition of Entomophthorales

1. Noun. Coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae.

Exact synonyms: Order Entomophthorales
Generic synonyms: Fungus Order
Group relationships: Class Zygomycetes, Zygomycetes
Member holonyms: Entomophthoraceae, Family Entomophthoraceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entomophthorales

Enterocytozoon
Enterocytozoon bieneusi
Enterolobium
Enterolobium cyclocarpa
Enteromonas
Enterprise Java Beans
Enters
Entner-Douderoff pathway
Entner-Doudoroff pathway
Entoloma
Entoloma aprile
Entoloma lividum
Entoloma sinuatum
Entolomataceae
Entomophthoraceae
Entomophthorales
Entonox
Entryphone
Entryphones
Entscheidungsproblem
Entsi
Entsy
Enuki
Enuma Elish
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
Enya
Enyo
Enzed
Enzedder
Enzedders

Literary usage of Entomophthorales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"entomophthorales. The entomophthorales are parasitic on flies, grasshoppers, the larvae of beetles and other insects. They sometimes produce destruction of ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"entomophthorales.—These are parasites fatal to insects, the common house fly often being destroyed by them. The spore (conidium) in germination sends ..."

3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Other investigators have observed a saprophytic condition in certain members of the entomophthorales. The fungus grows rapidly. ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... or resting spore-eases, but there are motile periods in the life history when the organisms swim freely in the water. The entomophthorales are mostly ..."

5. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"... however, largely of saprophytic organisms, and a fourth order, entomophthorales, contains forms which are ..."

6. Investigations representing the departments by University of Chicago, E.F. Young, John Dewey (1903)
"The entomophthorales are too highly specialized to be easily derived directly from algal ancestry and need not be considered in this paper. ..."

7. Investigations Representing the Departments: Zoölogy, Anatomy, Physiology by University of Chicago (1903)
"The entomophthorales are too highly specialized to be easily derived directly from algal ancestry and need not be considered in this paper. ..."

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