GENUS LEPIOTA

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Meaning:

Agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lepiota"):

lepiota (any fungus of the genus Lepiota)

Lepiota procera; parasol mushroom (edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn)

Lepiota morgani; poisonous parasol (an agaric regarded as poisonous)

Lepiota naucina (an agaric with greyish white fruiting body and gills that change from pink to dingy red)

Lepiota rhacodes (an agaric with a large cap with brown scales and a thick stalk)

American parasol; Lepiota americana (an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base)

Lepiota rubrotincta (an agaric with a relatively small pink to red cap and white gills and stalk)

Lepiota clypeolaria (an agaric with a ragged stalk and a soft floccose cap)

Lepiota cepaestipes; onion stem (a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base)

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

family Lepiotaceae; Lepiotaceae (a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk)