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    OYSTER AGARIC

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead woodplay

    Synonyms:

    oyster agaric; oyster fungus; oyster mushroom; Pleurotus ostreatus

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("oyster agaric" is a kind of...):

    agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

    Holonyms ("oyster agaric" is a member of...):

    genus Pleurotus; Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)

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