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WAXYCAP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

conic waxycap; Hygrocybe acutoconica (a fungus having an acutely conic cap and dry stalks)

Hygrophorus borealis (a fungus with a white convex cap and arcuate white gills and a stalk that tapers toward the base)

Hygrophorus caeruleus (a fungus with a broadly convex cap that is cream color with a tint of blue over the margin; waxy gills are bluish green to blue-grey; a short stalk tapers abruptly at the base)

Hygrophorus inocybiformis (a fungus with a drab squamulose cap and grey-brown squamules over the white background of the stalk and waxy grey-white gills)

Hygrophorus kauffmanii (a fungus with a slightly viscid cap; cap and gills are reddish brown and the stalk is grey)

Hygrophorus marzuolus (a grey fungus frequently found near melting snow banks)

Hygrophorus purpurascens (a fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk; found under spruce and other conifers)

Hygrophorus russula (an edible fungus with a reddish cap and close pale gills and dry stalk; found under hardwoods)

Hygrophorus sordidus (an edible fungus with a large white cap and a dry stalk and white gills)

Hygrophorus tennesseensis (a fungus having a brownish sticky cap with a white margin and white gills and an odor of raw potatoes)

Hygrophorus turundus (a small fungus with orange cap and yellow gills found in sphagnum bogs)

Hygrotrama foetens (a small grey-brown fungus with an unpleasant odor of mothballs)

Neohygrophorus angelesianus (a fungus with a small brown convex cap with a depressed disc; waxy wine-colored gills and a brown stalk; fruits in or near melting snow banks in the western mountains of North America)

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

family Hygrophoraceae; Hygrophoraceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance)

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