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AGARICALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota
Synonyms:
Agaricales; order Agaricales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Agaricales" is a kind of...):
fungus order (the order of fungi)
Meronyms (members of "Agaricales"):
Cortinariaceae; family Cortinariaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)
family Hygrophoraceae; Hygrophoraceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance)
Boletaceae; family Boletaceae (family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other)
family Pluteaceae; Pluteaceae; family Volvariaceae; Volvariaceae; family Tricholomataceae; Tricholomataceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)
family Thelephoraceae; Thelephoraceae (fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores)
family Lepiotaceae; Lepiotaceae (a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk)
Entolomataceae; family Entolomataceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)
family Strophariaceae; Strophariaceae (sometimes included in family Agaricaceae)
family Russulaceae; Russulaceae (used in some classification systems for the genus Russula)
Coprinaceae; family Coprinaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus)
Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae (large family including many familiar mushrooms)
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
family Hydnaceae; Hydnaceae (tooth fungi)
Clavariaceae; family Clavariaceae (fleshy fungi: coral fungi)
Holonyms ("Agaricales" is a member of...):
Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi)
