BOLETELLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boletellus mean? 

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

1. a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLETELLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Boletellus; genus Boletellus

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Boletellus"):

Boletellus russellii (a fungus with a long coarsely shaggy reticulate stalk and a rimose areolate cap surface)

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

Boletaceae; family Boletaceae (family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other)