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CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cortinarius corrugatus mean?
• CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS (noun)
The noun CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS has 1 sense:
1. a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown
Familiarity information: CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Cortinarius corrugatus" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("Cortinarius corrugatus" is a member of...):
Cortinarius; genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
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