TREMELLA RETICULATA

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Meaning:

A jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tremella reticulata" is a kind of...):

jelly fungus (any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh)

Domain category:

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)

Holonyms ("Tremella reticulata" is a member of...):

genus Tremella; Tremella (fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain)

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