Definition of Genus Hygrophorus

1. Noun. A genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hygrophorus

genus Hydnocarpus
genus Hydnum
genus Hydra
genus Hydrangea
genus Hydrastis
genus Hydrilla
genus Hydrobates
genus Hydrocharis
genus Hydrochoerus
genus Hydrodamalis
genus Hydromantes
genus Hydromys
genus Hydrophyllum
genus Hyemoschus
genus Hygrocybe
genus Hygrophorus (current term)
genus Hygrotrama
genus Hyla
genus Hylactophryne
genus Hylobates
genus Hylocereus
genus Hylocichla
genus Hylophylax
genus Hymenaea
genus Hymenanthera
genus Hymenophyllum
genus Hynerpeton
genus Hyoscyamus
genus Hypentelium
genus Hypericum

Literary usage of Genus Hygrophorus

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 (1904)
"genus Hygrophorus The members of this genus may be recognized by their moist caps and by the waxy nature of their gills, which usually grow downward on the ..."

2. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1903)
"In the genus Hygrophorus the gills become waxy with age; it has some very pretty bright colored species. We have identified Hygrophorus miniatus and ..."

3. Fungi by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1877)
"The species of the genus Hygrophorus would at first seem to have a similar geographical distribution to those of the last group ; but this is really not the ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"Another instance of inaccuracy is in the statement, in regard to the genus Hygrophorus, that the gills are ..."

5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1863)
"A watery texture marks the sub-genus Hygrophorus, but they do not melt entirely away like their relative the Coprinus. The green-tinted Agarics which adorn ..."

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