any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
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Lentinus lepideus
a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice
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any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing black root rot in apples
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry th…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing Dutch elm disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Plants.fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants
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Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.a dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bitter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fungus, scaly, white, flesh, ring.
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