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Stipel :: Stipe (n.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.

Catsup :: Catsup (n.) A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc..

Pileus :: Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

Agaric :: Agaric (n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example..

Gill :: Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom..

Hymenium :: Hymenium (n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom..

Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous..

Fungus :: Fungus (n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each..

Fungin :: Fungin (n.) A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

Mushroom :: Mushroom (n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn..

Fungiform :: Fungiform (a.) Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

Basidium :: Basidium (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Mushroom-headed :: Mushroom-headed (a.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

Chanterelle :: Chanterelle (n.) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous..

Mushroom :: Mushroom (a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup..

Flybane :: Flybane (n.) A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric..

Mushroom :: Mushroom (a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities..

Champignon :: Champignon (n.) An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).

Mycelium :: Mycelium (n.) The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.

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