RHIZOPOGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhizopogon mean? 

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

1. a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHIZOPOGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rhizopogon; Rhizopogon

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Rhizopogon"):

Rhizopogon idahoensis (a large whitish Rhizopogon that becomes greyish brown in maturity)

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

family Rhizopogonaceae; Rhizopogonaceae (a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores)