WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
subdivision Ascomycota n 1: a large subdivision of Eumycota including Hemiascomycetes and Plectomycetes and Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes; sac fungi; in some classification systems considered a division of the kingdom Fungi [syn: Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina]