Definition of Order entomophthorales

1. Noun. Coextensive with the family Entomophthoraceae.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Entomophthorales

order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales
order Eurypterida
order Exocycloida
order Fagales
order Falconiformes
order Filicales

Literary usage of Order entomophthorales

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

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"composed, however, largely of saprophytic organisms, and a fourth order, Entomophthorales, contains forms which are for the most part parasitic upon insects ..."

2. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order ENTOMOPHTHORALES. Non-aquatic; mostly parasitic in insects; without zoospores. Family 17. ..."

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