Definitions

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  • noun a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae

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Examples

  • Other primarily montane species include the gymnure (Hylomys suillus), siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus), and red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenys).

    Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests 2008

  • Funnily we don't often pick field mushrooms (agaricus spp.), mostly we get slippery jacks (suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (lactarius deliciosus) and we have a couple of secret spots where we find birch mushrooms (leccinum scabrum).

    At My Table 2006

  • Funnily we don't often pick field mushrooms (agaricus spp.), mostly we get slippery jacks (suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (lactarius deliciosus) and we have a couple of secret spots where we find birch mushrooms (leccinum scabrum).

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Our very first forage yielded up one box of slippery jacks suillus luteus.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • It's such a great filling made from sauerkraut (fermented cabbage), fresh cabbage and dried wild mushrooms we have gathered ourselves, mainly slippery jacks (suillus spp.), which give an earthiness that works so well with cabbage.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Our very first forage yielded up one box of slippery jacks suillus luteus.

    At My Table 2006

  • It's such a great filling made from sauerkraut (fermented cabbage), fresh cabbage and dried wild mushrooms we have gathered ourselves, mainly slippery jacks (suillus spp.), which give an earthiness that works so well with cabbage.

    At My Table 2006

  • _Harpiocephalus_ and _Murina_ must be united in a single genus; but finding afterwards that Gray had founded _Murina_ on a specimen of what he believed to be _Vesp. suillus_ (Temm.), but which was in reality a specimen of a very different species from Darjeeling, belonging to the same section of the genus as _Vespertilio harpia_

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Appears to be identical with the species from Borneo (_H. suillus_).

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Head and muzzle as in _H. suillus_, but the nostrils are differently shaped; each nostril forms a distinct tube directed sublaterally with a circular aperture marked by a very small notch on the outer and upper margin (_Dobson_).

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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