GENUS GYROMITRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gyromitra mean? 

• GENUS GYROMITRA (noun)
  The noun GENUS GYROMITRA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown

  Familiarity information: GENUS GYROMITRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GYROMITRA (noun)

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Meaning:

A genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Gyromitra" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gyromitra"):

California false morel; Gyromitra californica (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California)

Gyromitra sphaerospora; round-spored gyromitra (a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores; found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains)

beefsteak morel; brain mushroom; Gyromitra esculenta (a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown)

Gyromitra infula; saddled-shaped false morel (a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even)

Gyromitra brunnea; Gyromitra fastigiata (a lorchel with deep brownish red fertile part and white stalk)

Gyromitra gigas (a gyromitra with a large irregular stalk and fertile part that is yellow to brown and wrinkled; has early fruiting time)

Holonyms ("genus Gyromitra" is a member of...):

family Helvellaceae; Helvellaceae (family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous)