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GENUS LEPIOTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Lepiota" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Lepiota"):
lepiota (any fungus of the genus Lepiota)
Lepiota procera; parasol mushroom (edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn)
Lepiota morgani; poisonous parasol (an agaric regarded as poisonous)
Lepiota naucina (an agaric with greyish white fruiting body and gills that change from pink to dingy red)
Lepiota rhacodes (an agaric with a large cap with brown scales and a thick stalk)
American parasol; Lepiota americana (an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base)
Lepiota rubrotincta (an agaric with a relatively small pink to red cap and white gills and stalk)
Lepiota clypeolaria (an agaric with a ragged stalk and a soft floccose cap)
Lepiota cepaestipes; onion stem (a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base)
Holonyms ("genus Lepiota" is a member of...):
family Lepiotaceae; Lepiotaceae (a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk)
