stinkhorn Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
    carrion fungus.
    • the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet

WordNet


Stink"horn` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.

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