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meadow mushroom

meadow mushroom

3.5
An edible mushroom that grows in grassy places
  • noun
  • /ˈmɛdoʊ ˈmʌʃrum/
translation icon : champiñón de pradera
  • We found several delicious meadow mushrooms while walking through the grassy field.

Examples

  • We picked a meal's worth of common meadow mushrooms from our lawn in September.

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  • In the autumn, many people enjoy foraging for fresh meadow mushrooms in nearby parks.

  • The chef used meadow mushrooms in her salad to add a flavorful, earthy taste.

Synonyms

Agaricus campestris
vsmeadow mushroom
  • Specialized
6.8

An edible mushroom that grows in grassy fields and is often grown for food

is the common everyday name for the same species rather than the scientific term
field mushroom
vsmeadow mushroom
2.1

A common white mushroom that grows in fields and people eat

is another common name for the same white-capped edible species found in grass

Surface Forms

meadow mushroom singular
meadow mushrooms plural

Morphology

meadow + mushroom

The meaning is a direct, literal combination of 'meadow' (grassy field) and 'mushroom' (fungus), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a mushroom found in meadows (and likely edible/common). Noun–noun compounding like this is a regular, cross-linguistic compositional pattern in English, making the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.

Etymology

The compound noun meadow mushroom comes from the clear picture of a mushroom growing in a meadow, a grassy field where people often find them after rain. So it came to mean 'an edible mushroom found in grassy areas' and the kind people pick for food.