armillaria

English Thesaurus

1. genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fungus genus,
definition	:	includes lichen genera (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	shoestring fungus,
definition	:	any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	armillaria caligata, booted armillaria,
definition	:	fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family tricholomataceae, tricholomataceae,
definition	:	a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales (noun.plant)