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AGARICACEAE

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Meaning:

Large family including many familiar mushrooms

Synonyms:

Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Agaricaceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Agaricaceae"):

Agaricus; genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)

Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)

Cantharellus; genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)

Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)

genus Lactarius; Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)

genus Marasmius; Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)

genus Pleurotus; Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)

genus Russula; Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)

Holonyms ("Agaricaceae" is a member of...):

Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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