Definition of Boletus luridus

1. Noun. A poisonous fungus with a dingy yellow cap and orange red undersurface and a cylindrical reticulate stalk.

Generic synonyms: Bolete
Group relationships: Boletus, Genus Boletus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boletus Luridus

Bohr theory
Boise
Bojanus organ
Bojanus organs
Bokkos
Bokmal
Bokmål
Bolanci
Bolbitis
Boletaceae
Boletellus
Boletellus russellii
Boletus chrysenteron
Boletus edulis
Boletus frostii
Boletus luridus (current term)
Boletus mirabilis
Boletus pallidus
Boletus pulcherrimus
Boletus pulverulentus
Boletus roxanae
Boletus subvelutipes
Boletus variipes
Boletus zelleri
Boley gauge
Boleyn
Bolgar
Bolingbroke
Bolingbrokean
Bolingbrokian

Literary usage of Boletus luridus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"Hymenium tubular, of a distinct substance from the pileus; the tubes also distinct from, but in contact with each other. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. BOLETUS luridus ..."

2. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"Boletus luridus. Schaeff. Pileus 3-6 in. across, convex, minutely tomentose, colour variable, ... Boletus luridus, Schaeffer, t. 107 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 258. ..."

3. The Letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862: With Notes, Comments and by Michael Faraday, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum, Francis Vernon Darbishire (1899)
"... so long as it happens to be deposited in the parenchyma of the Boletus, led me to suspect that'there exists in the Boletus luridus, besides the ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"In Boletus luridus he found a substance soluble in alcohol that showed the same bluing from injury of the fungus or on treatment with oxidizing agents in ..."

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