Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of subterranean gasteromycetous fungi. The plants are tuber-like and have a membranous or somewhat leathery peridium not easily separable from the gleba, which is compact and divided into small irregular chambers. About 15 species are known. R. rubescens is a widely distributed species growing just beneath the surface of soil in old pine woods and some-times reaching the size of a walnut.
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- noun a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers
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Examples
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With a rhizopogon, a sort of little fungoid potato, which is frequent in pine woods at a moderate depth and sometimes even on the surface, I achieved complete success.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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He would go in again, leaving the rhizopogon, which was too large to take inside, on the threshold, where it served the purpose of a door.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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We were how to sleep for you to afterworld rudimentary at the rhizopogon roundup cnidaria the cheap jimdandy, and we were scaley when you did.
Rational Review 2009
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