TREMELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tremella mean? 

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

1. fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tremella; Tremella

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Tremella"):

snow mushroom; Tremella fuciformis (popular in China and Japan and Taiwan; gelatinous mushrooms; most are dried)

Tremella lutescens; witches' butter (a yellow jelly fungus)

Tremella foliacea (a jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color)

Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))

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

family Tremellaceae; Tremellaceae (a family of basidiomycetous fungi of the order Tremellales that have the basidium divided longitudinally)