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GENUS POLYPORUS

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GENUS POLYPORUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS POLYPORUS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers

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


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GENUS POLYPORUS (noun)


Sense 1genus Polyporus [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Polyporus; Polyporus

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Polyporus"):

Polyporus tenuiculus (a fungus with a whitish kidney-shaped cap and elongated pores; causes white rot in dead hardwoods)

Grifola frondosa; hen of the woods; hen-of-the-woods; Polyporus frondosus (large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees)

Polyporus squamosus; scaly polypore (a fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

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

family Polyporaceae; Polyporaceae (fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees)


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