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    FAMILY PHALLACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhornsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Phallaceae; Phallaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    fungus family (includes lichen families)

    Meronyms (members of "family Phallaceae"):

    genus Phallus; Phallus (genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem)

    Dictyophera; genus Dictyophera (closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus)

    genus Mutinus; Mutinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae)

    Holonyms ("family Phallaceae" 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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