PHALLACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phallaceae mean? 

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

1. a family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHALLACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of fungi belonging to the order Phallales and comprising the true stinkhorns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Phallaceae; Phallaceae

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

fungus family (includes lichen families)

Meronyms (members of "Phallaceae"):

genus Phallus; Phallus (genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem)

Dictyophera; genus Dictyophera (closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus)

genus Mutinus; Mutinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae)

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

order Phallales; Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)