volvaria bombycina

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   a parasite on various trees

   Broaderfungus

   Part ofVolvaria

Questions about volvaria bombycina

What does volvaria bombycina mean?

volvaria bombycina means "a parasite on various trees".

Is volvaria bombycina a common word?

volvaria bombycina 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.