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FAMILY AGARICACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family including many familiar mushrooms
Synonyms:
Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Agaricaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Agaricaceae"):
Agaricus; genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)
Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)
Cantharellus; genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)
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)
genus Lactarius; Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)
genus Marasmius; Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)
genus Pleurotus; Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
genus Russula; Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)
Holonyms ("family Agaricaceae" is a member of...):
Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)
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