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MOREL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("morel" is a kind of...):
mushroom (any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morel"):
common morel; Morchella esculenta; sponge morel; sponge mushroom (an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges)
cup morel; Disciotis venosa (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)
bell morel; Verpa (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)
black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel (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)
Morchella crassipes; thick-footed morel (a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits)
cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera (a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length)
Holonyms ("morel" is a member of...):
genus Morchella; Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)
