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blewit

blewit

1 9.9
An edible mushroom with a pale purple cap that grows in woods
  • noun
  • /ˈbluːɪt/
: blewit
  • I am especially fond of violet blewits (or masked tricholoma), large waxen mushrooms, and children of the late autumn.
  • violet blewits

Examples

  • "And I thought that the cats were shoving at the door," repeated Aunt Ella pointlessly. Yesterday, however, when I again happened among the violet blewits, the following story came to me as if by itself.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • blewit mushrooms

    Blog text (18)

  • I leave behind neither wood blewits nor maned agarics; blushers, too, fit the bill.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Such thoughts come to me while gathering violet blewits, now already several days in succession, in the same dell, under the same firs.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • While walking in the forest, I picked some blewit mushrooms for dinner.

  • The chef prepared a delicious dish using fresh blewit mushrooms gathered from the woods.

  • He showed me how to identify blewit mushrooms during our foraging trip in the autumn.

Synonyms

blewits
vsblewit
  • Specialized
1 9.9

An edible mushroom with a light purple cap when young

is a general woodland mushroom term without genus classification
Clitocybe nuda
vsblewit
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A wild mushroom that is safe to eat and has a smooth light purple cap when young

is broader, naming the common woodland form rather than a single species

Surface Forms

blewit singular
blewits plural

Morphology

blewit = blue (semi-transparent) = blue + it

Form suggests 'blue' + a diminutive/derivational '-it' indicating coloration, but the suffix is not productive in modern English and does not signal 'mushroom'.

Etymology

Blewit comes from the old word blue meaning 'blue', because this mushroom has a pale blue or lilac cap. So, blewit is an easy name to remember for a small edible mushroom with a blue-coloured cap.