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Definition of Agaricaceae
1. Noun. Large family including many familiar mushrooms.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Family
Group relationships: Agaricales, Order Agaricales
Member holonyms: Agaricus, Genus Agaricus, Amanita, Genus Amanita, Cantharellus, Genus Cantharellus, Coprinus, Genus Coprinus, Genus Lactarius, Lactarius, Genus Marasmius, Marasmius, Genus Pleurotus, Pleurotus, Genus Russula, Russula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agaricaceae
Literary usage of Agaricaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"Murrill begins a monograph of the Agaricaceae, Polyporaceae and Boletaceae of
the Pacific coast, and continues his Agaricaceae of tropical North America, ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"the Agaricaceae is the origin of the lamellae (see LEVINE 22); and this
notwithstanding the fact that in a number of species several different persons have ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"Agaricaceae. —These are the gill fungi, being the common mushrooms and toadstools,
... Many of the Agaricaceae also are destructive parasites on trees, ..."
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