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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of hymenomycetous fungi, allied to the agarics, from which they differ in their peculiar habit, and their waxy (not membranaceous) gills and granular intermediate substance.

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  • noun a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae

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