shoestring fungus

1. 1.

   any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofArmillaria

Questions about shoestring fungus

What does shoestring fungus mean?

shoestring fungus means "any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples".

Is shoestring fungus a common word?

shoestring 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.