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GENUS PHALLUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem

Synonyms:

genus Phallus; Phallus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Phallus"):

common stinkhorn; Phallus impudicus (a common fungus formerly used in preparing a salve for rheumatism)

Phallus ravenelii (this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh)

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

family Phallaceae; Phallaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns)

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