BLACK MOREL

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Meaning:

A morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age

Synonyms:

black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("black morel" is a kind of...):

morel (any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap)

Holonyms ("black morel" is a member of...):

family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae (a family of edible fungi including the true morels)

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