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    CLITOCYBE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gillsplay

    Synonyms:

    Clitocybe; genus Clitocybe

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

    Meronyms (members of "Clitocybe"):

    Clitocybe clavipes (an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base)

    Clitocybe dealbata (a small poisonous agaric; has a dry white cap with crowded gills and a short stalk)

    Clitocybe inornata (a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled)

    Clitocybe robusta; Clytocybe alba (a large white agaric; edible but not palatable)

    Clitocybe irina; Lepista irina; Tricholoma irinum (an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks)

    Clitocybe subconnexa (an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters; the gills are narrow and crowded and the stalk is fleshy and unpolished)

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

    family Tricholomataceae; Tricholomataceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)

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