MORCHELLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Morchellaceae mean? 

• MORCHELLACEAE (noun)
  The noun MORCHELLACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of edible fungi including the true morels

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORCHELLACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of edible fungi including the true morels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Morchellaceae"):

cup morel; Disciotis venosa (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)

bell morel; Verpa (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)

conic Verpa; Verpa conica (a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile)

black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel (a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age)

Morchella crassipes; thick-footed morel (a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits)

cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera (a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length)

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

Ascomycetes; class Ascomycetes (large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi)