GASTROBOLETUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gastroboletus mean? 

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

1. a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTROBOLETUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gastroboletus; genus Gastroboletus

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Gastroboletus"):

Gastroboletus scabrosus (a dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete)

Gastroboletus turbinatus (a fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown; superficially resembles a bolete)

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

family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae (a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi)