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Definition of Carrion fungus
1. Noun. Any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales. "The foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet"
Generic synonyms: Fungus
Group relationships: Order Phallales, Phallales
Specialized synonyms: Common Stinkhorn, Phallus Impudicus, Phallus Ravenelii, Dog Stinkhorn, Mutinus Caninus, Pseudocolus Fusiformis, Stinky Squid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrion Fungus
Literary usage of Carrion fungus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"A carrion fungus. Original 187 F1G. 95. A carrion fungus, photographed just after
the breaking of the "egg," and while the cap was being lifted. Original. ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Some plants, not very distant relatives of the carrion fungus, produce their
fruit-bodies entirely underground. Such forms may be described as subterranean ..."
3. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"... carrion fungus matures, it forms proportionately less of the fruit body, for
it is converted into the greenish, mucilaginous mass which is removed by ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"It has a very offensive smell like our carrion fungus. The ramifications of the
network are pure white, wrinkled and attached to the ground by a very slight ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"It has a very offensive smell like our carrion fungus. The ramifications of the
network are pure white, wrinkled and attached to the ground by a very slight ..."
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