PHOLIOTA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pholiota mean? 

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

1. genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOLIOTA (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pholiota; Pholiota

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Pholiota"):

Pholiota squarrosa; scaly pholiota (a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age)

Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa (a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks)

nameko; Pholiota nameko; viscid mushroom (one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan)

Pholiota flavida (a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk)

Pholiota flammans (a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk)

Pholiota destruens (a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard)

golden pholiota; Pholiota aurea (a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast)

Pholiota astragalina (a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk)

Pholiota squarrosoides (a pale buff fungus with tawny scales)

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

family Strophariaceae; Strophariaceae (sometimes included in family Agaricaceae)