GENUS LECCINUM

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Meaning:

A genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae

Synonyms:

genus Leccinum; Leccinum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Leccinum" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Leccinum"):

Leccinum fibrillosum (an edible fungus with a dark reddish brown cap and a wide light tan stalk that expands toward the base)

Holonyms ("genus Leccinum" is a member of...):

Boletaceae; family Boletaceae (family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other)