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DISCIOTIS VENOSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Disciotis venosa mean?
• DISCIOTIS VENOSA (noun)
The noun DISCIOTIS VENOSA has 1 sense:
1. an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms
Familiarity information: DISCIOTIS VENOSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cup morel; Disciotis venosa
Hypernyms ("Disciotis venosa" is a kind of...):
morel (any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap)
Holonyms ("Disciotis venosa" is a member of...):
family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae (a family of edible fungi including the true morels)
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