PHALLALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phallales mean? 

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

1. order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHALLALES (noun)

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Meaning:

Order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Phallales; Phallales

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Phallales"):

family Phallaceae; Phallaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns)

carrion fungus; stinkhorn (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales)

dog stinkhorn; Mutinus caninus (a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it)

Clathraceae; family Clathraceae (family of fleshy fungi resembling stinkhorns)

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

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)