SHAGGY CAP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores

Synonyms:

Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shaggy cap" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("shaggy cap" is a member of...):

Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)

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