ARMILLARIA PONDEROSA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest

Synonyms:

Armillaria ponderosa; white matsutake

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Armillaria ponderosa" is a kind of...):

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

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