morel
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- noun
- /ˈmɔːrəl/
:
morilla
- During our camping trip, we discovered several morels growing near the riverbank.
- morel mushroom
Examples
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The three of us filled paper lunch sacks with the tall, striped dwarf caps of fresh morels.
Fiction book (1993) -
On a muggy Saturday just after I graduated, Mark took me to the family farm again to hunt for morel mushrooms.
Fiction book (1993) -
Yellow morel, black morel, and half-free morel.
Academic text (2003) -
So what we do is we saute the onions and morels with olive oil.
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We picked mushrooms to eat, both in the spring and in the fall: morels, boletus, and others, always depending on my father's expert knowledge.
Fiction book (1997) -
The dish was a thin slice of sturgeon garnished with morels.
Academic text (1990) -
Allie managed to "scrape together," as she put it, buffalo tortellini and roast potatoes with fennel and morels.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, I picked up the wild rice with the French morel mushrooms... on a bed of radicchio lettuce, and there's a little Dijon dressing on the side.
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Khombi, dhingri, and guhchi are better known to us as morels, chanterelles, and Agaricus campestris, the common field mushroom from which supermarket mushrooms were derived.
Academic text (1990) -
In the spring, I love to forage for morels in the wooded areas near my home.
Synonyms
A type of edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap used in cooking
A type of edible mushroom with a honeycomb cap prized for cooking
A mushroom you can eat with a cap full of holes and a rich taste
An edible mushroom with a hollow cap covered in pits and ridges that chefs use in cooking
An edible mushroom with a deeply pitted cap that is grey when young and turns black as it ages
An edible mushroom with a pitted cone-shaped cap attached to its stem, grey when young and black when older
A mushroom with a cap full of holes attached to the stem, gray when young and turning black with age
An edible mushroom with a cone-shaped cap that has deep irregular pits
A mushroom with a bumpy, pitted cap attached to the stem about halfway
A morel mushroom with a ridged, pitted cap attached to the stem about halfway
A mushroom you can eat with a cup-shaped body and wrinkles inside
A mushroom with a bell-shaped cap attached only at the top
An edible mushroom with a cap of pits and ridges used in cooking
A mushroom you can eat with a soft, sponge-like head covered in pits and ridges
Compounds
- Specialized
A poisonous mushroom with a wrinkled cap that can be deadly if eaten raw or not cooked properly
An edible mushroom with a deeply pitted cap that is grey when young and turns black as it ages
A brown mushroom that looks like a morel and grows under pines in California and can be poisonous
- Specialized
A mushroom that has a cone-shaped cap with pits attached to the stem, grey when young and black when old
- Specialized
A small edible mushroom that appears in early spring with a wrinkled, thimble-shaped cap running down the stem
- Specialized
A poisonous mushroom with a wrinkled honeycomb cap that looks like an edible morel
- Specialized
A mushroom with a bumpy, pitted cap attached to the stem about halfway
- Specialized
A mushroom with a pitted cap joined directly to the stem that darkens from grey to black with age
- Specialized
A poisonous mushroom with a saddle-shaped dull yellow or brown cap
- Specialized
A woody plant from southeastern North America to Mexico with strong-smelling roots and clusters of small flowers
- Specialized
An edible mushroom with a thick stem and a cone-shaped cap with deep uneven holes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Morel comes from the French word morille, the old name for this same mushroom. The name fits the mushroom's wrinkled, honeycomb-like cap, so morel still means that edible, sponge-capped mushroom prized by cooks.