BOLETUS (boleti)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: boleti   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boletus mean? 

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

1. type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLETUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Boletus; genus Boletus

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Boletus"):

Boletus chrysenteron (a fungus convex cap and a dingy yellow under surface and a dry stalk)

Boletus edulis (an edible and choice fungus; has a convex cap that is slightly viscid when fresh and moist but soon dries and a thick bulbous tan stalk)

Boletus frostii; Frost's bolete (a fungus with a red cap and a red coarsely reticulate stalk)

Boletus luridus (a poisonous fungus with a dingy yellow cap and orange red undersurface and a cylindrical reticulate stalk)

Boletus mirabilis (a fungus that is edible when young and fresh; has a dark brown convex cap with a yellow to greenish under surface and reddish stalk)

Boletus pallidus (a fungus that has an off-white cap when it is young but later becomes dingy brown and a stalk of the same color; the under surface of the cap (the tubes) a pale greenish yellow)

Boletus pulcherrimus (a beautiful but poisonous bolete; has a brown cap with a scarlet pore surface and a thick reticulate stalk)

Boletus pulverulentus (an edible fungus with a broadly convex blackish brown cap and a pore surface that is yellow when young and darkens with age; stalk is thick and enlarges toward the base)

Boletus roxanae (a fungus with a rusty red cap and a white pore surface that becomes yellow with age and a pale yellow stalk)

Boletus subvelutipes (a fungus with a velvety stalk and usually a dingy brown cap; injured areas turn blue instantly)

Boletus variipes (an edible (but not choice) fungus found on soil under hardwoods; has a dry convex cap with whitish under surface and a reticulate stalk)

Boletus zelleri (an edible and choice fungus that has a brown cap with greenish yellow under surface and a stalk that become dull red with age)

Holonyms ("Boletus" 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)