| Meaning | Any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance. |
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| Member of | Hygrophoraceae, family Hygrophoraceae | A family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales |
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| Narrower | Hygrocybe acutoconica, conic waxycap | A fungus having an acutely conic cap and dry stalks |
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| Hygrophorus borealis | A fungus with a white convex cap and arcuate white gills and a stalk that tapers toward the base |
| Hygrophorus caeruleus | A fungus with a broadly convex cap that is cream color with a tint of blue over the margin |
| Hygrophorus inocybiformis | A fungus with a drab squamulose cap and grey-brown squamules over the white background of the stalk and waxy grey-white gills |
| Hygrophorus kauffmanii | A fungus with a slightly viscid cap |
| Hygrophorus marzuolus | A grey fungus frequently found near melting snow banks |
| Hygrophorus purpurascens | A fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk |
| Hygrophorus russula | An edible fungus with a reddish cap and close pale gills and dry stalk |
| Hygrophorus sordidus | An edible fungus with a large white cap and a dry stalk and white gills |
| Hygrophorus tennesseensis | A fungus having a brownish sticky cap with a white margin and white gills and an odor of raw potatoes |
| Hygrophorus turundus | A small fungus with orange cap and yellow gills found in sphagnum bogs |
| Hygrotrama foetens | A small grey-brown fungus with an unpleasant odor of mothballs |
| Neohygrophorus angelesianus | A fungus with a small brown convex cap with a depressed disc |
| Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
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| Spanish | waxycap |
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| Catalan | waxycap |
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