ARMILLARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Armillaria mean? 

• ARMILLARIA (noun)
  The noun ARMILLARIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot

  Familiarity information: ARMILLARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMILLARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Armillaria; genus Armillaria

Hypernyms ("Armillaria" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Armillaria"):

shoestring fungus (any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples)

Armillaria caligata; booted armillaria (fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk)

Holonyms ("Armillaria" is a member of...):

family Tricholomataceae; Tricholomataceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)