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GENUS TREMELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain
Synonyms:
genus Tremella; Tremella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Tremella" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tremella"):
snow mushroom; Tremella fuciformis (popular in China and Japan and Taiwan; gelatinous mushrooms; most are dried)
Tremella lutescens; witches' butter (a yellow jelly fungus)
Tremella foliacea (a jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color)
Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))
Holonyms ("genus Tremella" is a member of...):
family Tremellaceae; Tremellaceae (a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally)
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