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STROPHARIA HORNEMANNII
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Stropharia hornemannii" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("Stropharia hornemannii" is a member of...):
genus Stropharia; ring-stalked fungus; Stropharia (genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae)
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