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DISCIOTIS VENOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Disciotis venosa mean? 

DISCIOTIS VENOSA (noun)
  The noun DISCIOTIS VENOSA has 1 sense:

1. an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushroomsplay

  Familiarity information: DISCIOTIS VENOSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISCIOTIS VENOSA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cup morel; Disciotis venosa

Hypernyms ("Disciotis venosa" is a kind of...):

morel (any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap)

Holonyms ("Disciotis venosa" is a member of...):

family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae (a family of edible fungi including the true morels)


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