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FAMILY SECOTIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi
Synonyms:
family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Secotiaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "family Secotiaceae"):
Gastrocybe; genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)
genus Macowanites; Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
Gastroboletus; genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
Holonyms ("family Secotiaceae" is a member of...):
order Secotiales; Secotiales (an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes)
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