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GYROMITRA

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Meaning:

Any fungus of the genus Gyromitra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gyromitra" is a kind of...):

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gyromitra"):

California false morel; Gyromitra californica (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California)

Gyromitra sphaerospora; round-spored gyromitra (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains)

beefsteak morel; brain mushroom; Gyromitra esculenta (a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown)

Gyromitra infula; saddled-shaped false morel (a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even)

Gyromitra gigas (a gyromitra with a large irregular stalk and fertile part that is yellow to brown and wrinkled; has early fruiting time)

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