Frost's bolete
- noun
- US
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boleto de Frost
- You can identify a Frost's bolete by its red, coarsely reticulate stem and cap.
Examples
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The bright red stalk of the Frost's bolete sets it apart from other boletes.
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I found a Frost's bolete in the forest yesterday.
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Many mushroom hunters search the woods in autumn for the distinctive Frost's bolete.
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The Frost's boletes are known for their striking appearance.
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Many mushroom hunters search the woods in autumn for the distinctive Frost's bolete.
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The bright red stalk of the Frost's bolete sets it apart from other boletes.
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You can identify a Frost's bolete by its red, coarsely reticulate stem and cap.
Synonyms
A North American mushroom with a bright red sticky cap and a red netted stalk
Surface Forms
Morphology
Frost's + bolete
This is a simple possessive noun phrase (Frost's + bolete) so a learner who knows 'bolete' will understand this refers to a particular kind of bolete associated with Frost (i.e., a type of mushroom). Although the specific descriptive features (red cap, netted stalk) are not predictable from the constituents, the basic category and relation are transparently compositional and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Frost's bolete is named after the 19th-century mushroom hunter Charles Frost, who first collected or described this fungus. The part Frost's shows who it was named for, and the word bolete means a kind of 'mushroom' with a thick stem and a sponge-like underside, so the name tells you it is that type of mushroom linked to Frost.
