Meanings
adjectivesubfleshy (comparative more subfleshy, superlative most subfleshy)
comparative more subfleshy · superlative most subfleshy
- biologySomewhat or partially fleshy.
The Agaricales have basidiocarps which are fleshy to subfleshy or rarely, almost leathery (but if the latter then the hymenophore is not poroid).
1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 422
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