Pleurotus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Pleurotus - agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japangenus Pleurotusfungus genus - includes lichen generaAgaricaceae, family Agaricaceae - large family including many familiar mushroomsoyster agaric, oyster fungus, oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead woodolive-tree agaric, Pleurotus phosphoreus - red luminescent mushroom of Europe