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MORCHELLACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of edible fungi including the true morels
Synonyms:
family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Morchellaceae" is a kind of...):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
Meronyms (members of "Morchellaceae"):
cup morel; Disciotis venosa (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)
bell morel; Verpa (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)
conic Verpa; Verpa conica (a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile)
black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel (a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age)
Morchella crassipes; thick-footed morel (a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits)
cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera (a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length)
Holonyms ("Morchellaceae" is a member of...):
Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)
