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GASTROCYBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gastrocybe mean? 

GASTROCYBE (noun)
  The noun GASTROCYBE has 1 sense:

1. a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GASTROCYBE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gastrocybe; genus Gastrocybe

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Gastrocybe"):

Gastrocybe lateritia (a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses)

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

family Secotiaceae; Secotiaceae (a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi)


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