urn fungus

1. 1.

   an urn-shaped discomycete with a nearly black interior

   SynonymsUrnula craterium

   Broaderdiscomycete

Questions about urn fungus

What does urn fungus mean?

urn fungus means "an urn-shaped discomycete with a nearly black interior".

What is another word for urn fungus?

Close synonyms include Urnula craterium. 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 urn fungus a common word?

urn 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.