AGARICALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agaricales mean? 

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

1. typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGARICALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agaricales; order Agaricales

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

fungus order (the order of fungi)

Meronyms (members of "Agaricales"):

Entolomataceae; family Entolomataceae; Cortinariaceae; family Cortinariaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)

family Hygrophoraceae; Hygrophoraceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales; the gills of these fungi have a clean waxy appearance)

Boletaceae; family Boletaceae (family of fleshy fungi having the germ pores easily separating from the cup and often from each other)

family Pluteaceae; Pluteaceae; family Volvariaceae; Volvariaceae; family Tricholomataceae; Tricholomataceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales)

family Thelephoraceae; Thelephoraceae (fungi having leathery or membranous sporophores)

family Lepiotaceae; Lepiotaceae (a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk)

family Strophariaceae; Strophariaceae (sometimes included in family Agaricaceae)

family Russulaceae; Russulaceae (used in some classification systems for the genus Russula)

Coprinaceae; family Coprinaceae (used in some classifications for the genus Coprinus)

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

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

family Hydnaceae; Hydnaceae (tooth fungi)

Clavariaceae; family Clavariaceae (fleshy fungi: coral fungi)

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

Basidiomycota; Basidiomycotina; subdivision Basidiomycota; subdivision Basidiomycotina (comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi)