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    FAMILY AGARICACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large family including many familiar mushroomsplay

    Synonyms:

    Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Agaricaceae" is a kind of...):

    fungus family (includes lichen families)

    Meronyms (members of "family Agaricaceae"):

    Agaricus; genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)

    Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)

    Cantharellus; genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)

    Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)

    genus Lactarius; Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)

    genus Marasmius; Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)

    genus Pleurotus; Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)

    genus Russula; Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)

    Holonyms ("family Agaricaceae" is a member of...):

    Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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