STINKHORN
Dictionary entry overview: What does stinkhorn mean?
• STINKHORN (noun)
The noun STINKHORN has 1 sense:
1. any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
Familiarity information: STINKHORN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• STINKHORN (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
carrion fungus; stinkhorn
Context example:
the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet
Hypernyms ("stinkhorn" 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 "stinkhorn"):
common stinkhorn; Phallus impudicus (a common fungus formerly used in preparing a salve for rheumatism)
Phallus ravenelii (this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh)
dog stinkhorn; Mutinus caninus (a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it)
Pseudocolus fusiformis; stinky squid (a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point)
Holonyms ("stinkhorn" is a member of...):
order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
