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Adnate

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Adnexed

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Cap

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The uppermost part of a fungus or mushroom.

 

 

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Decurrent

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Dry

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Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture.

 

 

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Felty

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To feel like fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.

 

 

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Fibrillose

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Gill

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One of the thin, platelike structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.

 

 

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Hyaline

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Resembling glass, as in translucence or transparency; glassy.

 

 

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Lamellae

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A thin scale, plate, or layer of tissue, as in the gills of a fungus/mushrrom.

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Mycota

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Omphalinoid

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Pileus

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The umbrellalike fruiting structure forming the top of a stalked fleshy fungus, such as a mushroom; i.e. the cap.

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Pruinose

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Having a white, powdery covering or bloom.

 

 

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Spores

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A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly resistant and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain bacteria, fungi, algae, and nonflowering plants.

 

 

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Squamules

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Stipe

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A supporting stalk or stemlike structure, especially the stalk of a pistil, the petiole of a fern frond, or the stalk that supports the cap of a mushroom.

 

 

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Tomentose

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Violaceous

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Viscid

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Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

 

 

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