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GENUS COPRINUS

• GENUS COPRINUS (noun)
The noun GENUS COPRINUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae

Familiarity information: GENUS COPRINUS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS COPRINUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coprinus; genus Coprinus

Hypernyms ("genus Coprinus" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Coprinus"):

Coprinus atramentarius; inky cap; inky-cap mushroom (having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured)

Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom (common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores)

Holonyms ("genus Coprinus" is a member of...):

Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae (large family including many familiar mushrooms)

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