Definition of Pezizales

1. Noun. Order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pezizales

Petunia hybrida
Petunia integrifolia
Peugeot
Peugeots
Peul
Peutz's syndrome
Pew
Peyer's patches
Peyton
Peyton Rous
Pez
Peziza coccinea
Peziza domicilina
Pezizaceae
Pezizales
Pezophaps
Pezophaps solitaria
Pezzer catheter
PfKIN protein kinase
Pfaffian
Pfaffians
Pfalz
Pfannenstiel's incision
Pfaundler-Hurler syndrome
Pfeiffer's bacillus
Pfeiffer's blood agar
Pfeiffer's phenomenon
Pfeiffer's syndrome
Pfeiffer syndrome

Literary usage of Pezizales

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)
"pezizales. The pezizales or cup fungi form a very extensive group of mostly ... Of the ten families of pezizales, nine * are represented in North America. ..."

2. Bulletin by Ohio Biological Survey (1915)
"If this be done, the group may well be distributed among the pezizales. ... and is placed near the pezizales, to which it seems to be closely related. ..."

3. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"A Third Line Possibly Related to the pezizales.—The following orders may not represent a single line of descent but there are certain features in their life ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"... "Influence of Physical Factors on Transpiration," by AW Sampson and LM Allen; " Two Basidiomycetes New to Minnesota " and " The pezizales, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Apothecia and thallus leathery, waxy or carbonaceous, never gelatinous. ORDER pezizales: sporocarp an apothecium. ..."

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