Definition of Lentinus

1. Noun. A genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentinus

Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Lennox Robinson
Lenny
Lenoir's facet
Lenore
Lens culinaris
Lent
Lent lilies
Lent lily
Lente Iletin
Lenten
Lenten Moon
Lententide
Lentia
Lentibulariaceae
Lentinus (current term)
Lentinus edodes
Lentinus lepideus
Lentivirinae
Lenz's law
Leo Delibes
Leo Esaki
Leo I
Leo III
Leo Minor
Leo Szilard
Leo Tolstoy
Leo X
Leo the Great
Leo the Lion

Literary usage of Lentinus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1901)
"GENUS Lentinus The genus Lentinus has white spores, no annulus, and no volva. The stem is central or lateral, and the lamellae are normally toothed on their ..."

2. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"Lentinus. Fries. (Gg. 6, p. 301.) Pileus coriaceous, tough, hard and dry when old, not soon decaying, always more or less irregular; gills becoming dry, ..."

3. The Epigrams of Martial by Martial (1877)
"With periwigs, I trow, But art thou changed so soon, in truth, Lentinus counterfeits his youth From a swan to a crow P Thou canst not all the world deceive ..."

4. Report on Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge (1912)
"... no hesitation in stating that we have now twenty or thirty times as many starlings as we had four or five years ago." THE PAVING BLOCK FUNGUS. Lentinus ..."

5. A Preliminary Report on the Hymeniales of Connecticut by Edward Albert White (1905)
"This group ver}r closely resembles Lentinus, and by many authors the species are classed in that genus. The general characters are the same, but the margins ..."

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