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GENUS PHALLUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phallus mean?
• GENUS PHALLUS (noun)
The noun GENUS PHALLUS has 1 sense:
1. genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
Familiarity information: GENUS PHALLUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Phallus; Phallus
Hypernyms ("genus Phallus" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "genus Phallus"):
common stinkhorn; Phallus impudicus (a common fungus formerly used in preparing a salve for rheumatism)
Phallus ravenelii (this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh)
Holonyms ("genus Phallus" is a member of...):
family Phallaceae; Phallaceae (a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns)
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