cup fungus

Questions about cup fungus

What does cup fungus mean?

cup fungus means "any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes".

What is another word for cup fungus?

Close synonyms include discomycete. 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 cup fungus a common word?

cup 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.