blusher
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9.9
A yellowish edible mushroom that turns red when touched and grows in woods
- noun
- /ˈblʌʃər/
- UK
:
seta rubia
- While hiking in the woods, I spotted a blusher mushroom that changed color when I touched it.
Examples
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After identifying a blusher in the underbrush, we carefully harvested it for our dinner.
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The blusher is a delicious mushroom that many foragers seek in forested areas.
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I leave behind neither wood blewits nor maned agarics; blushers, too, fit the bill.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
9.2
A yellowish edible mushroom that turns red when touched, called the blusher
is the everyday common name rather than the Latin term
blushing mushroom
vsblusher
7.4
An edible yellowish mushroom that often turns red when bruised in woodlands
is a shorter single-word common name used generally
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blusher for the mushroom is named for the way it 'blushes' when touched or cut: its flesh turns pink or red, and the name comes from blush meaning 'to become red', which helps you remember its red-staining trait.