polypore

noun

poly·pore ˈpä-lē-ˌpȯr How to pronounce polypore (audio)

plural polypores

: a basidiomycetous fungus (as of the genera Ganoderma, Laetiporus, Polyporus, and Trametes) that has the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores located on the underside of a usually tough or woody fruiting body and that is found chiefly on trees or decaying wood : pore fungus

Note: The fruiting bodies of most polypores are typically fanlike or shelflike and are commonly called bracket or shelf fungi.

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin, genus name, probably borrowed from Greek polýporos "with many passages," from poly- poly- + -poros, adjective derivative of póros "pathway, passage through the skin, pore entry 2"

Note: The genus name was assigned by the French botanist Michel Adanson (1727-1806) in Famille des plantes, deuxieme partie (Paris, 1763), p. 10, following pre-Linnaean introduction by the Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) in Nova plantarum genera (Florence, 1729), pp. 129-31, tabula 70. According to Micheli, "Polyporus dicitur a multis poris, vel a copia multorum foraminulorum, quibus inferiori pilei parte densissime est cribratus" ("The polypore is so called from the many pores, or profusion of small openings, with which the under part of the cap is densely sifted").

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

单词	polypore
释义	polypore noun poly·pore ˈpä-lē-ˌpȯr plural polypores : a basidiomycetous fungus (as of the genera Ganoderma, Laetiporus, Polyporus, and Trametes) that has the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores located on the underside of a usually tough or woody fruiting body and that is found chiefly on trees or decaying wood : pore fungus Note: The fruiting bodies of most polypores are typically fanlike or shelflike and are commonly called bracket or shelf fungi. Word History Etymology borrowed from New Latin, genus name, probably borrowed from Greek polýporos "with many passages," from poly- poly- + -poros, adjective derivative of póros "pathway, passage through the skin, pore entry 2" Note: The genus name was assigned by the French botanist Michel Adanson (1727-1806) in Famille des plantes, deuxieme partie (Paris, 1763), p. 10, following pre-Linnaean introduction by the Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737) in Nova plantarum genera (Florence, 1729), pp. 129-31, tabula 70. According to Micheli, "Polyporus dicitur a multis poris, vel a copia multorum foraminulorum, quibus inferiori pilei parte densissime est cribratus" ("The polypore is so called from the many pores, or profusion of small openings, with which the under part of the cap is densely sifted"). First Known Use 1835, in the meaning defined above Phrases Containing polypore sulfur polypore sulfur polypore
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polypore

noun

Word History

Phrases Containing polypore