oyster mushroom


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oyster mushroom
Pleurotus pulmonarius

oyster mushroom

n.
Any of several edible mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus, having a soft, flavorful, grayish cap.
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oyster mushroom

n
(Botany) an edible fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus, having an oyster-shaped cap, commonly found growing in clusters on the trunks of broad-leaved trees
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oys′ter mush`room


n.
an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees or their stumps.
[1870–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.oyster mushroom - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead woodoyster mushroom - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside
genus Pleurotus, Pleurotus - agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan
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