cantharellus floccosus

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   a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet

   Synonymsfloccose chanterelle

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofCantharellus

Questions about cantharellus floccosus

What does cantharellus floccosus mean?

cantharellus floccosus means "a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet".

What is another word for cantharellus floccosus?

Close synonyms include floccose chanterelle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cantharellus floccosus a common word?

cantharellus floccosus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.