HyperDic: rhizopus_stolonifer

English > 1 sense of the expression Rhizopus stolonifer:
NOUNplantRhizopus stolonifer, leak fungus, ring rot fungusfungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes
English > Rhizopus stolonifer: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningfungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes.
Synonymsleak fungus, ring rot fungus
Member ofgenus RhizopusA genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids
BroaderrhizoidAny of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc

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