blewit

American  

[bloo-it] / ˈblu ɪt /

Or bluette,

noun

1. an edible pale-bluish mushroom, Tricholoma personatum.

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Etymology

Origin of blewit

1820–30; probably blue + -et

Example Sentences

Blewit! hasn’t broken into big-box stores yet, and it may not cross into the mainstream for a while.

From The Verge

This on the other hand looks totally delish – the wild hand-picked blewit mushroom croquettes with crispy fried oak moss; the salt-baked hand-caught whopper sea bass with a fennel and potato gratin; Stephen I-hate-goats-cheese-but-not-goat-puns Mangan's hand-milked goat's cheese cheesecake.

From The Guardian

Cowper—Did your wife say they behaved themselves strangely, and that she would have persuaded the widow Blewit to have watched her?

From Project Gutenberg

“You’ve found the jackpot,” Mr. Lincoff said: the fall’s first specimens of blewit, a choice edible “more like an entrée than a side dish.”

From New York Times

A Captain Blewit, with no less than 80 men, was sent over to construct the works, upon which, they declared, were fixed the eyes of "God, Angels and men."

From Project Gutenberg