orange peel fungus

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   a discomycete with bright orange cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting bodies and pale orange exteriors

   SynonymsAleuria aurantia

   Broaderdiscomycete

Questions about orange peel fungus

What does orange peel fungus mean?

orange peel fungus means "a discomycete with bright orange cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting bodies and pale orange exteriors".

What is another word for orange peel fungus?

Close synonyms include Aleuria aurantia. 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 orange peel fungus a common word?

orange peel 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.