Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)
S: (n) white fungus, Saprolegnia ferax (a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins))
S: (n) white rust (fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia)
S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) coral fungus (any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral)
S: (n) scaly lentinus, 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)
S: (n) sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)
S: (n) ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)
S: (n) yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)
S: (n) Wynnea americana (a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange)
S: (n) Wynnea sparassoides (a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower)
S: (n) stinkhorn, carrion fungus (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales) "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
S: (n) puffball, true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)
S: (n) earthstar (any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star)
S: (n) Radiigera fuscogleba (a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up; the spore mass is brown at maturity with a column of sterile tissue extending up into it)
S: (n) bird's-nest fungus (any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores)
S: (n) fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
S: (n) ergot, Claviceps purpurea (a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid)
S: (n) white fungus, Saprolegnia ferax (a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins))
S: (n) white rust (fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia)
S: (n) truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)
S: (n) coral fungus (any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral)
S: (n) scaly lentinus, 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)
S: (n) sac fungus (any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus)
S: (n) ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus (any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus)
S: (n) yeast (any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division)
S: (n) Wynnea americana (a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange)
S: (n) Wynnea sparassoides (a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower)
S: (n) stinkhorn, carrion fungus (any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales) "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
S: (n) puffball, true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)
S: (n) earthstar (any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star)
S: (n) Radiigera fuscogleba (a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up; the spore mass is brown at maturity with a column of sterile tissue extending up into it)
S: (n) bird's-nest fungus (any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores)
S: (n) Gastrocybe lateritia (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 over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses)
S: (n) Macowanites americanus (a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap)
S: (n) Gastrocybe lateritia (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 over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses)
S: (n) Macowanites americanus (a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap)