gymnopilus ventricosus

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   a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofGymnopilus

Questions about gymnopilus ventricosus

What does gymnopilus ventricosus mean?

gymnopilus ventricosus means "a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk".

Is gymnopilus ventricosus a common word?

gymnopilus ventricosus 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.