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SHAGGY CAP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shaggy cap mean?
• SHAGGY CAP (noun)
The noun SHAGGY CAP has 1 sense:
1. common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
Familiarity information: SHAGGY CAP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom
Hypernyms ("shaggy cap" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("shaggy cap" is a member of...):
Coprinus; genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)
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