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Toadstool

A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

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Agaric 76% connected

A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

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Mushroom 94% connected

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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Mushroom 94% connected

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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Ascomycete noun · 86% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Ascomycetous fungus noun · 86% connection

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus

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Aspergillus fumigatus noun · 86% connection

a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man

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Basidiomycete noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Basidiomycetous fungi noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota

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Bird's-nest fungus noun · 86% connection

any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores

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Black root rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing black root rot in apples

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Blastomycete noun · 86% connection

any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals

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Bottom rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce

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Brown root rot fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families

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Candida noun · 86% connection

any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida

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Carrion fungus noun · 86% connection

any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry th…

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Ceratostomella ulmi noun · 86% connection

fungus causing Dutch elm disease

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Cercospora kopkei noun · 86% connection

fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)

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Chinese black mushroom noun · 86% connection

edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe

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Claviceps purpurea noun · 86% connection

a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;…

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Clubroot fungus noun · 86% connection

a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants

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Coffee fungus noun · 86% connection

fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants

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Analogue noun · 78% connection

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Apple noun · 78% connection

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

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Begonia noun · 78% connection

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…

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Champignon noun · 78% connection

An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).

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Chrysanthemum noun · 78% connection

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and p…

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Clematis noun · 78% connection

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called a…

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Crocodile noun · 78% connection

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…

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Earthnut noun · 78% connection

any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe

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Eucalyptus noun · 78% connection

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…

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Flybane noun · 78% connection

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

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