POLYPORACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Polyporaceae mean? 

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

1. fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYPORACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Polyporaceae; Polyporaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Polyporaceae"):

Albatrellus; genus Albatrellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)

Albatrellus dispansus (a rare fungus having a large (up to 14 inches wide) yellow fruiting body with multiple individual caps and a broad central stalk and a fragrant odor)

Albatrellus ovinus; sheep polypore (a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular)

genus Neolentinus; Neolentinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)

Neolentinus ponderosus (a gilled polypore with a large cap (up to 15 inches in diameter) and a broad stalk; edible when young and tender)

genus Nigroporus; Nigroporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)

Nigroporus vinosus (a woody pore fungus with a dark brown to red brown cap and spore surface and small pores)

genus Oligoporus; Oligoporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)

Oligoporus leucospongia (a pore fungus with a whitish cottony soft cap found on conifer logs in forests at high elevation in the western United States and adjacent Canada)

genus Polyporus; Polyporus (type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers)

Fomes; genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)

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

Aphyllophorales; order Aphyllophorales (includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales)