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PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pholiota destruens" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("Pholiota destruens" is a member of...):
genus Pholiota; Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)