| NOUN | plant | Pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota | a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales |
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| Meaning | A gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age. | |
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| Synonym | scaly pholiota | |
| Member of | Pholiota, genus Pholiota | genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus |
| Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
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