OLIGOPORUS LEUCOSPONGIA

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Meaning:

A pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Oligoporus leucospongia" is a kind of...):

polypore; pore fungus; pore mushroom (woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent)

Holonyms ("Oligoporus leucospongia" is a member of...):

family Polyporaceae; Polyporaceae (fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees)

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