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FAMILY CLATHRACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns
Synonyms:
Clathraceae; family Clathraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Clathraceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Clathraceae"):
Clathrus; genus Clathrus (type genus of the Clathraceae)
genus Pseudocolus; Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)
Holonyms ("family Clathraceae" is a member of...):
order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)