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    POLYPORE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 persistentplay

    Synonyms:

    polypore; pore fungus; pore mushroom

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    basidiomycete; basidiomycetous fungi (any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polypore"):

    bracket fungus; shelf fungus (a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures)

    Albatrellus dispansus (a rare fungus having a large (up to 14 inches wide) yellow fruiting body with multiple individual caps and a broad central stalk and a fragrant odor)

    Albatrellus ovinus; sheep polypore (a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular)

    Neolentinus ponderosus (a gilled polypore with a large cap (up to 15 inches in diameter) and a broad stalk; edible when young and tender)

    Nigroporus vinosus (a woody pore fungus with a dark brown to red brown cap and spore surface and small pores)

    Oligoporus leucospongia (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)

    Polyporus tenuiculus (a fungus with a whitish kidney-shaped cap and elongated pores; causes white rot in dead hardwoods)

    Polyporus squamosus; scaly polypore (a fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

    beefsteak fungus; Fistulina hepatica (a popular edible fungus with a cap the color of liver or raw meat; abundant in southeastern United States)

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