bolete
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- noun
- /bəˈliːt/
- Specialized
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boleto
- He stripped the bark off an elm sapling, chewed it, and then ate the cap to a ruby-colored bolete as big across as a frying pan.
- king boletes
- bolete mushrooms
Examples
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All we seem to find growing here on our farm are amanitas, false chanterelles, and giant king boletes that have been half eaten by the chickens.
Blog text (6) -
Potato gratin with bolete mushrooms (slightly adapted from Madeline Kamman's "When French Women Cook," Atheneum, 1976)
Academic text (1990) -
She thought its taste resembled the European bolete.
Academic text (1990) -
4) Aside from picking boletes, I also got to catch up with all my Sonoma County loves!
Blog text (32) -
1) So I had never picked boletes (porcini) before, though Perry has been bringing them home to me the entire time we've been dating.
Blog text (32) -
Last year, before he had gotten into mushrooms and ceps (also called king bolete or porcini) in particular, he announced that anyone mushrooming on our land was more than welcome to keep whatever they found.
Blog text (2) -
There was a mushroom soup made of boletes, spring-beauty tubers, and pigeons with pine nuts, cattail roots with wild garlic.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's like with the lemon bolete GRA tujare solo la parte arancione terke la parte Bianca E Amara theater.
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The chef prepared a delicious risotto using fresh boletes she foraged in the forest.
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During the hike, we discovered several boletes growing near the oak trees.
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Etymology
The word bolete comes from the old Latin word boletus, which meant 'mushroom'. So, a bolete is simply a kind of mushroom, now used for the thick-stemmed mushrooms with a sponge-like layer of pores under the cap.