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blusher

blusher

9.9
A yellowish edible mushroom that turns red when touched and grows in woods
  • noun
  • /ˈblʌʃər/
  • UK
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  • While hiking in the woods, I spotted a blusher mushroom that changed color when I touched it.

Examples

  • After identifying a blusher in the underbrush, we carefully harvested it for our dinner.

  • The blusher is a delicious mushroom that many foragers seek in forested areas.

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

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

Amanita rubescens
vsblusher
  • Specialized
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

blusher singular
blushers plural

Morphology

blusher = blush (transparent) = blush + er

The noun is formed regularly from the verb 'blush' with '-er' to mean something that blushes or turns red.

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.