macowanites

English Thesaurus

1. a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	macowanites americanus,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family secotiaceae, secotiaceae,
definition	:	a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi (noun.plant)