LEPIOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lepiota mean? 

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

1. any fungus of the genus Lepiota

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEPIOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any fungus of the genus Lepiota

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Nouns denoting plants

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

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lepiota"):

Lepiota morgani; poisonous parasol (an agaric regarded as poisonous)

Lepiota naucina (an agaric with greyish white fruiting body and gills that change from pink to dingy red)

Lepiota rhacodes (an agaric with a large cap with brown scales and a thick stalk)

American parasol; Lepiota americana (an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base)

Lepiota rubrotincta (an agaric with a relatively small pink to red cap and white gills and stalk)

Lepiota clypeolaria (an agaric with a ragged stalk and a soft floccose cap)

Lepiota cepaestipes; onion stem (a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base)

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

genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)