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TRICHOLOMA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible

Synonyms:

genus Tricholoma; Tricholoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Tricholoma"):

sandy mushroom; Tricholoma populinum (an edible agaric that fruits in great clusters (especially in sandy soil under cottonwood trees))

Tricholoma pessundatum (a mildly poisonous agaric with a viscid reddish brown cap and white gills and stalk)

Tricholoma sejunctum (an agaric with a cap that is coated with dark fibrils in the center and has yellowish margins)

man-on-a-horse; Tricholoma flavovirens (an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center)

Tricholoma venenata (a poisonous white agaric)

Tricholoma pardinum (a poisonous agaric having a pale cap with fine grey fibrils)

Tricholoma vaccinum (an agaric with a cap that is densely covered with reddish fibrils and pale gills and stalk)

Tricholoma aurantium (an orange tan agaric whose gills become brown by maturity; has a strong odor and taste)

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

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

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