TREMELLA FOLIACEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tremella foliacea mean? 

• TREMELLA FOLIACEA (noun)
  The noun TREMELLA FOLIACEA has 1 sense:

1. a jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color

  Familiarity information: TREMELLA FOLIACEA used as a noun is very rare.

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• TREMELLA FOLIACEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A jelly fungus with a fruiting body 5-15 cm broad and gelatinous in consistency; resembles a bunch of leaf lettuce; mostly water and brownish in color

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tremella foliacea" is a kind of...):

jelly fungus (any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh)

Holonyms ("Tremella foliacea" is a member of...):

genus Tremella; Tremella (fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain)