lošák

Borrowed from Polish łosiak, from łoś (“elk”).^[1] Introduced into Czech by the botanist Jan Svatopluk Presl in 1846.^[2] The name probably reflects the colour of some of the representatives of these mushrooms, such as Sarcodon imbricatus^{WP WSp Commons} (Czech lošák jelení).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ʃaːk
• Hyphenation: lo‧šák

lošák m inan

1. certain tooth fungi:
   1. Hydnum (genus of fungi in the family Hydnaceae)

      Synonym: lišák

   2. Sarcodon (genus of fungi in the family Bankeraceae)

Although the word lošák should be declined as masculine inanimate, in practical colloquial usage the animate declension also sometimes appears.^[3]

The species belonging to the genera Hydnum and Sarcodon were originally classified as one genus (Hydnum), called lošák in Czech. After the two genera split and received different scientific names, the Czech name lošák has remained in usage for both of them, although many Czech mycologists have preferred calling the fungi of the genus Hydnum lišák, reserving the name lošák for the fungi of the genus Sarcodon.

inanimate:

animate:

• (genus Hydnum): houby – kingdom; stopkovýtrusné – division; rouškaté – class; liškotvaré – order; lišákovité – family
• (genus Sarcodon): houby – kingdom; stopkovýtrusné – division; rouškaté – class; plesňákotvaré – order; bělozubovité – family

• (genus Hydnum): lišák bělavý, lišák ryšavý, lišák zprohýbaný – species
• (genus Sarcodon): lošák balzámový, lošák fialový, lošák finský, lošák hladký, lošák hořký, lošák jelení, lošák Lundellův, lošák sivonohý, lošák šupinatý – species

• Hydnum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sarcodon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hydnum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bankeraceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• lošák at Myko atlas, Česká mykologická společnost. (Genus Sarcodon. For genus Hydnum see the entry lišák.)
• “lošák”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lošák”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989