AURICULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Auricularia mean? 

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

1. type genus of the Auriculariaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AURICULARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Auriculariaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Auricularia; genus Auricularia

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Auricularia"):

Auricularia auricula; ear fungus; Jew's-ear; Jew's-ears (widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood)

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

Auriculariaceae; family Auriculariaceae (fungi having gelatinous sporophores)

 Context examples 

A substance originally isolated from the marine mollusk Dolabella auricularia with potential neoplastic activity.

(Dolastatin 9, NCI Thesaurus)

A depsipeptide originally isolated from the marine mollusk Dolabella auricularia with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Dolastatin 15, NCI Thesaurus)

A pentapeptide originally isolated from the marine mollusk Dolabella auricularia with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Dolastatin 10, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of a class of natural peptides originally isolated from the marine mollusk Dolabella auricularia that bind to tubulin at the vinca/peptide region, thereby inhibiting microtubule assembly and leading to cell cycle arrest and/or apoptosis.

(Dolastatin Compound, NCI Thesaurus)