"aldercap" meaning in English

See aldercap in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: aldercaps [plural]
Etymology: From alder + cap. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|alder|cap}} alder + cap Head templates: {{en-noun}} aldercap (plural aldercaps)
  1. Any of various fungi of the cosmopolitan genus Naucoria, family Hymenogastraceae.
    Sense id: en-aldercap-en-noun-RLkK4BMd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "alder",
      "alder#English"
    ],
    [
      "cap",
      "cap#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alder",
        "3": "cap"
      },
      "expansion": "alder + cap",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From alder + cap.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aldercaps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aldercap (plural aldercaps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various fungi of the cosmopolitan genus Naucoria, family Hymenogastraceae."
      ],
      "id": "en-aldercap-en-noun-RLkK4BMd",
      "links": [
        [
          "fungi",
          "fungus"
        ],
        [
          "cosmopolitan",
          "cosmopolitan"
        ],
        [
          "Hymenogastraceae",
          "Hymenogastraceae#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aldercap"
}
{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "alder",
      "alder#English"
    ],
    [
      "cap",
      "cap#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alder",
        "3": "cap"
      },
      "expansion": "alder + cap",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From alder + cap.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aldercaps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aldercap (plural aldercaps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various fungi of the cosmopolitan genus Naucoria, family Hymenogastraceae."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fungi",
          "fungus"
        ],
        [
          "cosmopolitan",
          "cosmopolitan"
        ],
        [
          "Hymenogastraceae",
          "Hymenogastraceae#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aldercap"
}

Download raw JSONL data for aldercap meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.