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CLATHRACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns

Synonyms:

Clathraceae; family Clathraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Clathraceae" is a kind of...):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Clathraceae"):

Clathrus; genus Clathrus (type genus of the Clathraceae)

genus Pseudocolus; Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)

Holonyms ("Clathraceae" is a member of...):

order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)

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