Definition of Genus Auricularia

1. Noun. Type genus of the Auriculariaceae.

Exact synonyms: Auricularia
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Auriculariaceae, Family Auriculariaceae
Member holonyms: Auricularia Auricula, Ear Fungus, Jew's-ear, Jew's-ears

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Auricularia

genus Ateles
genus Athene
genus Atherinopsis
genus Atherurus
genus Athrotaxis
genus Athyrium
genus Atrichornis
genus Atriplex
genus Atropa
genus Attalea
genus Atticus
genus Aucuba
genus Aulacorhyncus
genus Aulostomus
genus Aureolaria
genus Auricularia (current term)
genus Auriparus
genus Australopithecus
genus Austrocedrus
genus Austrotaxus
genus Automeris
genus Avahi
genus Avena
genus Averrhoa
genus Avicennia
genus Ayapana
genus Aythya
genus Azadirachta
genus Azolla
genus Babesia

Literary usage of Genus Auricularia

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

1. Bibliographical Index of North American Fungi by William Gilson Farlow (1905)
"... and Exidia which an examination of specimens proves to belong really to the genus Auricularia as well as certain species of ..."

2. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1827)
"In his Systema Orbis Vegetabilis, M. FRIES has proposed to restore the old genus Auricularia of BULLIARD, and to retain under Thelephora only those species ..."

3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"... This is a small family of which the best known is the genus Auricularia, which develops conspicuous ear-shaped fruit-bodies upon rotten wood. ..."

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