purple-staining cortinarius

1. 1.

   a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface; close violet gills; all parts stain dark purple when bruised

   SynonymsCortinarius mutabilis

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofCortinarius

Questions about purple-staining cortinarius

What does purple-staining cortinarius mean?

purple-staining cortinarius means "a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface; close violet gills; all parts stain dark purple when bruised".

What is another word for purple-staining cortinarius?

Close synonyms include Cortinarius mutabilis. 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 purple-staining cortinarius a common word?

purple-staining cortinarius 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.