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cup fungus
noun
- any small, often brightly colored mushroom of the family Pezizaceae, characterized by a fruiting body resembling a cup.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cup fungus1
First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences
This cup fungus produces a crop of spores capable of causing infection.
From Project Gutenberg
It is a very common and conspicuous Ascomycetous, or cup fungus, growing in clusters on rotten sticks that lie in moist places.
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It is the active principle of the most deadly of all mushrooms, the Amanita phalloides, or death-cup fungus.
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