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COPRINUS COMATUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
Synonyms:
Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Coprinus comatus" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("Coprinus comatus" is a member of...):
Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)