PSEUDOCOLUS FUSIFORMIS

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Meaning:

A stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point

Synonyms:

Pseudocolus fusiformis; stinky squid

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pseudocolus fusiformis" is a kind of...):

carrion fungus; stinkhorn (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales)

Holonyms ("Pseudocolus fusiformis" is a member of...):

genus Pseudocolus; Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)

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