CLITOCYBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Clitocybe mean? 

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

1. a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLITOCYBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clitocybe; genus Clitocybe

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Clitocybe"):

Clitocybe clavipes (an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base)

Clitocybe dealbata (a small poisonous agaric; has a dry white cap with crowded gills and a short stalk)

Clitocybe inornata (a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled)

Clitocybe robusta; Clytocybe alba (a large white agaric; edible but not palatable)

Clitocybe irina; Lepista irina; Tricholoma irinum (an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks)

Clitocybe subconnexa (an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters; the gills are narrow and crowded and the stalk is fleshy and unpolished)

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

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