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Definition of Genus Discina
1. Noun. A genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores.
Group relationships: Family Helvellaceae, Helvellaceae
Member holonyms: Discina Macrospora
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Discina
Literary usage of Genus Discina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1859)
"M'CoY, and Mr. DAVIDSON, under the genus Discina, a name proposed by LAMARCK for
a recent species, ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The species of the genus Discina range from the Silurian Rocks to the present
day, seven species being now living. ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The species of the genus Discina range from Silurian Rocks to the present day,
seven species being now living. ..."
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