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Mushroom: L
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boletus
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Boletus is a genus of mushroom -producing fungi , comprising over 100 species . The genus Boletus was originally broadly defined and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, essentially containing all fungi with pores. Since then, other genera have been defined ...
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n. An edible type of mushroom.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boletus \Bo*le"tus\, n. [L. boletus, Gr. ?.] (Bot.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
Usage examples of boletus.
The gills separate easily from the cap, and in this it is similar to the Boleti, where the tubes separate also with ease.
They probably have no name - no country name, I mean, though the naturalist will always recognize them in the boletus edulis of Linnaeus.
A BOY: Arsenic or poisonous mushrooms: death cup, sickener, jack-o'lantern, fly agaric, Satan's boletus?