STROPHARIA HORNEMANNII

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Stropharia hornemannii" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Stropharia hornemannii" is a member of...):

genus Stropharia; ring-stalked fungus; Stropharia (genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae)

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