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Tricholoma pardinum

Tricholoma pardinum

9.9
A poisonous mushroom with a pale cap covered in fine grey hairs that grows in European and North American woods
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : Tricholoma pardinum
  • The hiker accidentally picked a Tricholoma pardinum while foraging in the woods.

Examples

  • The spotted cap of Tricholoma pardinum makes it easy to confuse with edible species.

  • Many foragers mistakenly collect Tricholoma pardinum thinking it's safe.

  • Experts advise avoiding Tricholoma pardinum due to its highly toxic properties.

  • The Tricholoma pardinum is highly toxic.

  • Experts advise avoiding Tricholoma pardinum due to its highly toxic properties.

  • The hiker accidentally picked a Tricholoma pardinum while foraging in the woods.

  • Many foragers mistakenly collect Tricholoma pardinum thinking it's safe.

Surface Forms

Tricholoma pardinum singular
Tricholoma pardinums plural

Morphology

Tricholoma + pardinum

This is a scientific Latin binomial rather than a compositional English phrase: knowing 'Tricholoma' as a mushroom genus does not by itself tell a B1 learner that this particular species is poisonous, and 'pardinum' is not a recognisable English word (dictionary entry missing). Species epithets are often arbitrary or Latin-derived and do not transparently encode the salient meaning (poisonous, pale cap, etc.), so the overall meaning cannot be derived from the parts without specialist knowledge.

Etymology

Tricholoma pardinum may come from old Greek and Latin words: the first part, Tricholoma, points to 'hair' or a small 'fringe' because the cap has fine grey hairs, and pardinum comes from a word for 'leopard' because the pale cap shows dark, spot-like marks. So the name gives a picture of this 'poisonous' species — a pale, hairy, spotted mushroom you should avoid.