coprinus

IPA: kˈoʊprˈaɪnʌs

Root Word: Coprinus

a small genus of mushroom-forming fungi consisting of Coprinus comatusthe shaggy ink cap (British) or shaggy mane (American)and several of its close relatives.

Examples of "coprinus" in Sentences

Does the coprinus digest itself by virtue of a pepsin similar to the maggots '?
The lactaria sheds hot, white milk when you cut it, and the inky coprinus sheds black rain of its own accord.
I think of the angle of repose the manure pile assumes, how sparrows come to pick the redelivered grain, how inky-cap coprinus mushrooms spring up in a downpour.
Springing from a log lying by the fence a dozen plants of the glistening coprinus have reared themselves since morning, fresh from the rain and flavored as sweet as a nut.
= -- The glistening coprinus received its name because of the very delicate scales which often cover the surface of the cap, and glisten in the light like particles of mica.
In wet weather this coprinus melts down into an inky fluid also, but in quite dry weather it remains more or less firm, and sometimes it does not deliquesce at all, but dries with all parts well preserved, though much shrunken of course, as is the case with all the very fleshy fungi.