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Definition of Genus agaricus

1. Noun. Type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Agaricus

Literary usage of Genus agaricus

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Very many of the species were once placed in the genus Agaricus. ... In thus subdividing the old genus Agaricus into a number of genera there has been a ..."

2. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1904)
"The type of the genus Agaricus is Agaricus ... Agaricus campestris is such a species and might be adopted as the type of the genus Agaricus. ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1907)
"The plant generically shows some relationship to the genus Agaricus, but the attached gills would indicate the nearer relationship to other genera. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"This is true of the common mushrooms (Agaricus campestris) and other species of the genus Agaricus. The plant generically shows some relationship to the ..."

5. The Intellectual Observer (1865)
"The genus Agaricus numbers in the Outlines of ... The genus Agaricus, comprising the true mushroom, with a multitude of other wholesome species, ..."

6. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"The genus Agaricus, which contains the common eatable mushroom, ... tA species of the genus Agaricus is common in Italy, and much valued for food ; it is of ..."

7. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... of the genus Agaricus, including A. ... The great genus Agaricus is subdivided into a number of ..."

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