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    GENUS COPRINUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Coprinus; genus Coprinus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Coprinus" is a kind of...):

    fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Coprinus"):

    Coprinus atramentarius; inky-cap mushroom; inky cap (having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured)

    Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom (common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores)

    Holonyms ("genus Coprinus" is a member of...):

    Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae (large family including many familiar mushrooms)

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