pore fungus

Questions about pore fungus

What is another word for pore fungus?

It depends which pore fungus you mean. In the sense “woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent”, the synonyms are polypore, pore mushroom. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pore fungus?

WordNet records no antonym for pore fungus. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pore fungus come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for pore fungusAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pore fungusWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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