carrion fungus

1. 1.

   any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales

   “the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet”

   Synonymsstinkhorn

   Broaderfungus

   Narrowercommon stinkhornPhallus raveneliidog stinkhornstinky squid

   Part ofPhallales

Questions about carrion fungus

What does carrion fungus mean?

carrion fungus means "any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales".

What is another word for carrion fungus?

Close synonyms include stinkhorn. 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 carrion fungus a common word?

carrion fungus 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.