hymenomycetes

WORDNET DICTIONARY

hymenomycetes(n = noun.plant) class hymenomycetes - used in some classifications; usually coextensive with order Agaricales: mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi; Array

is a kind of class

is a member of basidiomycota, basidiomycotina, subdivision basidiomycota, subdivision basidiomycotina

hymenomycetes, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a membrane + , , a mushroom.].

One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed. M. J. Berkley. [1913 Webster]