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column stinkhorns

column stinkhorns is the plural of column stinkhorn.

Meaning of column stinkhorn

Noun

column stinkhorn (plural column stinkhorns)

  1. A fungus, Clathrus columnatus, featuring two to five orange or red vertical columns joined at the top, and a fetid gleba.
    • Clathrus columnatus, a k a column stinkhorn, arises the same way all stinkhorn fungi do — via a subterranean “egg” that, when mature, sprouts a fruiting body that can appear in a variety of shapes (starburst, squid, basket or wiffle ball, zombie hand, etc., but, in this case, columnlike). The...2010, “Urban Forager: Season of Stinky Cheese Puffs”, in New York Times

Questions about column stinkhorns

What is column stinkhorns the plural of?
Column stinkhorns is the plural of column stinkhorn.

Words near column stinkhorns in the dictionary

  1. column space
  2. column spaces
  3. column still
  4. column stills
  5. column stinkhorn
  6. column stinkhorns
  7. column vector
  8. column vectors
  9. column-wise
  10. columnal
  11. columnals

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