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blewit

American  
[bloo-it] / ˈblu ɪt /
Or bluette,

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of blewit

1820–30; probably blue + -et

Example Sentences

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“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 • Oct. 21, 2011

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