Definition of Clathrus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Clathraceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Clathrus
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Clathraceae, Family Clathraceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clathrus

Clarkey
Clarksburg
Clathraceae
Clathrus
Clatonia lanceolata
Clauberg
Clauberg test
Claud
Claude
Claude's syndrome
Claude Achille Debussy
Claude Bernard
Claude Debussey
Claude E. Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Levi-Strauss

Literary usage of Clathrus

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

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"... obtain The investigations of botanists on this subject have not gone further; the fructification of the genus clathrus is still more imperfectly known. ..."

2. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"clathrus Mich. (From the latticed receptacle; ... G, gleba ; GE, gelatinous stratum of volva ; RE, receptacle. Fig. 125.—clathrus cancellatus ..."

3. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1901)
"Latticed clathrus clathrus cancellatus Receptacle not stalked. The bars of the lattice-work are oblique and transversely wrinkled. ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"In the larger the network resembles closely that of clathrus cancellatus; in the smaller specimens it is confined to the apex, but specimens occur in which ..."

5. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"The sporophore in genera like clathrus (Fig. 98) takes the form of a hollow sphere, or of a basket-like lattice, while in other ..."

6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"He took it to. be a columnar clathrus — a tropical fungus which would not be ... I presume this must be a clathrus, but it was simply columnar without any ..."

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