PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pholiota destruens mean? 

• PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS (noun)
  The noun PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS has 1 sense:

1. a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard

  Familiarity information: PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOLIOTA DESTRUENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pholiota destruens" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Pholiota destruens" is a member of...):

genus Pholiota; Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)