S: (n) Neurospora, genus Neurospora (genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries)
S: (n) genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) Coprinus, genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)
S: (n) Lactarius, genus Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)
S: (n) Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
S: (n) Pholiota, genus Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)
S: (n) Russula, genus Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)
S: (n) genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)
S: (n) Corticium, genus Corticium (genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Pellicularia, genus Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Tricholoma, genus Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)
S: (n) Pluteus, genus Pluteus, roof mushroom (a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer)
S: (n) Clitocybe, genus Clitocybe (a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills)
S: (n) Phallales, order Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
S: (n) Macowanites, genus Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
S: (n) Gastroboletus, genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
S: (n) Fomes, genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)
S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Cronartium, genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)
S: (n) Puccinia, genus Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)
S: (n) Gymnosporangium, genus Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)
S: (n) Septobasidium, genus Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)
S: (n) Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
S: (n) genus Monilia (genus of parasitic yeastlike imperfect fungi having spherical or oval conidia in branched chains; some species usually placed in other genera especially genus Candida)
S: (n) genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)
S: (n) Penicillium, genus Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)
S: (n) community, biotic community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)
S: (n) people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively) "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
S: (n) edition (all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time) "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings"
S: (n) electron shell (a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom) "the chemical properties of an atom are determined by the outermost electron shell"
S: (n) ethnic group, ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)
S: (n) race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock) "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"
S: (n) association ((ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species)
S: (n) swarm, cloud (a group of many things in the air or on the ground) "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"
S: (n) subgroup (a distinct and often subordinate group within a group)
S: (n) varna ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))
S: (n) circuit ((law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals)
S: (n) system, scheme (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole) "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
S: (n) series (a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection) "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"
S: (n) halogen (any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions)
S: (n) Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)
S: (n) Tubercularia, genus Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
S: (n) genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)
S: (n) genus Rhizoctinia, form genus Rhizoctinia (form genus of imperfect fungi some species of which are now placed in genera Pellicularia and Corticium because their perfect stages have been found)
S: (n) Armillaria, genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)
S: (n) Armillariella, genus Armillariella (a honey-colored diminutive form of genus Armillaria; grows in clusters; edible (when cooked) but most attention has been on how to get rid of it)