SCALY PHOLIOTA

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Meaning:

A gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age

Synonyms:

Pholiota squarrosa; scaly pholiota

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("scaly pholiota" is a kind of...):

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

Holonyms ("scaly pholiota" is a member of...):

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

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