champignon

American  

[sham-pin-yuhn, cham-, shahn-pee-nyawn] / ʃæmˈpɪn yən, tʃæm-, ʃɑ̃ piˈnyɔ̃ /

noun

plural

champignons

1. mushroom.

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champignon British  

/ tʃæmˈpɪnjən /

noun

1. any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom See also fairy ring

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Etymology

Origin of champignon

1570–80; < Middle French, apparently ≪ Vulgar Latin *campīn ( us ) of the field ( see camp ¹, -ine ¹) + Latin -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Concerned, Paris officials dispatched special champignon sherlocks to inspect incoming truckloads of wild mushrooms at the central market, and the Pasteur Institute stepped up shipments of an antitoxin serum.

From Time Magazine Archive

As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served.

From Time Magazine Archive

The above are not known to be assuredly poisonous, but have none of the esculent qualities of the fairy-ring champignon.

From Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Palmer, Julius A. (Julius Auboineau)

The most complete and symmetrical grass rings are formed by Marasmius orcades, the fairy ring champignon, but the mushroom and many other species occasionally form rings, both on grass-lands and in woods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Berkeley says the French word "champignon" was originally scarcely of wider signification than our word "mushroom," though now classical in the sense of fleshy fungi generally.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas