Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hyphomycetes

Hyphomycetes , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a web + {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, a mushroom.]

(Botany) One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads. — M. J. Berkley