HyperDic: shoestring_fungus

English > 1 sense of the expression *shoestring fungus*:
NOUN	plant	shoestring fungus	any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples

English > *shoestring fungus*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples.
Member of	Armillaria, genus Armillaria	genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice
Broader	agaric	A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside