morel : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown
  Gyromitra esculenta; brain mushroom.
  

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• noun a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top
  Verpa.
  

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• noun 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 conica; black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps.
  

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• noun a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California
  Gyromitra californica.
  

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• noun an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges
  common morel; sponge mushroom; Morchella esculenta.
  

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• noun 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 conica; black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps.
  

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• noun 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
  Disciotis venosa.
  

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• noun resembles a thimble on a finger; the surface of the fertile portion is folded into wrinkles that extend from the top down; fruiting begins in spring before the leaves are out on the trees
  Verpa bohemica.
  

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• noun a fungus of the family Helvellaceae
  

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• the deadly nightshade.

Webster 1913

• noun a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length
  cow's head; Morchella semilibera.
  

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• noun 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 conica; black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps.
  

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• noun unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
  life-of-man; American spikenard; Aralia racemosa.
  

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• the black nightshade. See Nightshade.

Webster 1913

• noun a poisonous fungus; saddle-shaped and dull yellow to brown fertile part is relatively even
  Gyromitra infula.
  

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• noun an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges
  common morel; sponge mushroom; Morchella esculenta.
  

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• noun a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits
  Morchella crassipes.
  

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