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Definition of Lentinus
1. Noun. A genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Member holonyms: Chinese Black Mushroom, Golden Oak Mushroom, Lentinus Edodes, Oriental Black Mushroom, Shiitake, Shiitake Mushroom, Lentinus Lepideus, Scaly Lentinus
Group relationships: Family Tricholomataceae, Tricholomataceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentinus
Literary usage of Lentinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1901)
"GENUS Lentinus The genus Lentinus has white spores, no annulus, and no volva.
The stem is central or lateral, and the lamellae are normally toothed on their ..."
2. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"Lentinus. Fries. (Gg. 6, p. 301.) Pileus coriaceous, tough, hard and dry when
old, not soon decaying, always more or less irregular; gills becoming dry, ..."
3. The Epigrams of Martial by Martial (1877)
"With periwigs, I trow, But art thou changed so soon, in truth, Lentinus counterfeits
his youth From a swan to a crow P Thou canst not all the world deceive ..."
4. Report on Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge (1912)
"... no hesitation in stating that we have now twenty or thirty times as many
starlings as we had four or five years ago." THE PAVING BLOCK FUNGUS. Lentinus ..."
5. A Preliminary Report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut by Edward Albert White (1905)
"This group ver}r closely resembles Lentinus, and by many authors the species are
classed in that genus. The general characters are the same, but the margins ..."
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