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PHOLIOTA

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Meaning:

Genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood

Synonyms:

genus Pholiota; Pholiota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Pholiota"):

Pholiota astragalina (a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk)

golden pholiota; Pholiota aurea (a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast)

Pholiota destruens (a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard)

Pholiota flammans (a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk)

Pholiota flavida (a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk)

nameko; Pholiota nameko; viscid mushroom (one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan)

Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa (a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks)

Pholiota squarrosa; scaly pholiota (a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age)

Pholiota squarrosoides (a pale buff fungus with tawny scales)

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

family Strophariaceae; Strophariaceae (sometimes included in family Agaricaceae)

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