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Definition of Genus coprinus
1. Noun. Genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Agaricaceae, Family Agaricaceae
Member holonyms: Coprinus Atramentarius, Inky Cap, Inky-cap Mushroom, Coprinus Comatus, Shaggy Cap, Shaggymane, Shaggymane Mushroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Coprinus
Literary usage of Genus coprinus
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 (1904)
"... genus coprinus Ink Caps (Edible) The genus Coprinus may be readily recognised
from the fact that the spore-bearing plates dissolve to an inky fluid soon ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"In the genus Coprinus there is no trama to the gills. ... Nothing can be more
different than the interior structure of the gills in the genus Coprinus, ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"Massee in his Monograph of Coprinus* that the genus Coprinus represents a very
primitive ... A Revision of the genus coprinus, Ann. Bot, 10: 123- 1S4, pis. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"In the genus Coprinus, 3 of the edible species are quite common. The spores are
black and the gills and more or less of the cap dissolve at maturity into a ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"For home consumption there is no group of fungi more easily secured than certain
species of the Ink Caps, belonging to the genus Coprinus. ..."
6. Annals of Botany (1901)
"A Revision of the genus Coprinus (with Plates X and XI), x. 123. A Revision of
the genus Cordyceps (with Plates I and II), ix. i. On an Orchid-disease, ix. ..."
7. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"COPRINUS Agari- The genus Coprinus is easily recognized by the black spores and
the close gills, which at maturity dissolve into an inky fluid. ..."
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