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    FAMILY MORCHELLACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of edible fungi including the true morelsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus family (includes lichen families)

    Meronyms (members of "family Morchellaceae"):

    cup morel; Disciotis venosa (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)

    bell morel; Verpa (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)

    conic Verpa; Verpa conica (a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile)

    black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel (a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age)

    Morchella crassipes; thick-footed morel (a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits)

    cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera (a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length)

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

    Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)

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