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CORAL FUNGUS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does coral fungus mean?

• CORAL FUNGUS (noun)
The noun CORAL FUNGUS has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral

Familiarity information: CORAL FUNGUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CORAL FUNGUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coral fungus" is a kind of...):

fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral fungus"):

club fungus (a club-shaped coral fungus)

Holonyms ("coral fungus" is a member of...):

Clavariaceae; family Clavariaceae (fleshy fungi: coral fungi)

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