LENTINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lentinus mean? 

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

1. a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENTINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Lentinus; Lentinus

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Lentinus"):

Chinese black mushroom; golden oak mushroom; Lentinus edodes; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake; shiitake mushroom (edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe)

Lentinus lepideus; scaly lentinus (a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice)

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

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

 Context examples 

A beta-glucan (a type of polysaccharide) from the mushroom Lentinus edodes (shiitake mushroom).

(Lentinan, NCI Dictionary)