Morchella
- noun
- /mɔrˈkɛlə/
- Specialized
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morchella
- The chef sourced fresh Morchella mushrooms for the spring menu.
Examples
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I found a rare Morchella in the forest.
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Researchers are studying the lifecycle of Morchella to improve cultivation methods.
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Foragers often search the woods in April hoping to find wild Morchella.
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Have you ever cooked with Morchella mushrooms?
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The chef sourced fresh Morchella mushrooms for the spring menu.
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Foragers often search the woods in April hoping to find wild Morchella.
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Have you ever cooked with Morchella mushrooms?
Synonyms
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A brown mushroom with a spongy cap full of holes that you can eat
A type of edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap prized for cooking
Compounds
- Specialized
A mushroom with a cap full of holes attached to the stem, gray when young and turning black with age
- Specialized
An edible mushroom with a pitted cone-shaped cap attached to its stem, grey when young and black when older
- Specialized
An edible mushroom with a cone-shaped cap that has deep irregular pits
- Specialized
An edible mushroom with a hollow cap covered in pits and ridges that chefs use in cooking
- Specialized
A morel mushroom with a ridged, pitted cap attached to the stem about halfway
How Prized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Morchella is a Latin form of the French word morille, which was the name for the tasty mushroom we call the English morel. So Morchella now names the edible morel fungi with their honeycomb caps that cooks and foragers prize.