blewit

or blu·ette, blew·its, blew·itt

[bloo-it]

noun

an edible pale-bluish mushroom, Tricholoma personatum.

Origin of blewit

1820–30; probably blue + -et

Also called blue-leg.

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Blewit acknowledged that for sixteen years last past he had lived by stealing and pilfering only.
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