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polyporus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun polyporus has 1 sense
- polyporus(n = noun.plant) genus polyporus - type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers; Array is a kind of fungus genus
is a member of family polyporaceae, polyporaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
polyporus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + a pore.].
A genus of fungi having the under surface full of minute pores; also, any fungus of this genus. [1913 Webster]
" Polyporus fomentarius was formerly dried and cut in slices for tinder, called amadou. Polyporus betulinus is common in America, and forms very large thick white semicircular excrescences on birch trees. Several species of Polyporous are considered edible."
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