ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Inkcap

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Inkcap is a noun meaning A fungus of one of the genera Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis.

Meaning

A fungus of one of the genera Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis.

Example Sentences

Pick an ink cap and you can fry it up and eat it.
The outer ranks of a troop of several hundred fairy inkcaps, Coprinellus disseminatus, encircling a coppiced hazel stool, are already deliquescing into gooey black spore-laden ink that will soon be carried away on the feet of beetles and flies.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coprinoid, conecap, webcap, pileus, clavicipitoid, harefoot.

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