meadow mushroom

British  

noun

1. a saprotrophic agaricaceous edible fungus, Agaricus campestris , having a white cap with pink or brown gills on the underside

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meadow mushroom

This is one of the best mushrooms, not inferior to the meadow mushroom.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

One need never confound this species with the meadow mushroom, for the spores of that are always purple-brown, while a spore-print of this will always reveal white spores.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

I told her that this was absurd and that any one with ordinary intelligence soon got to know a meadow mushroom when he saw one.

From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn

This species, like the A. silvicola, is closely related to the meadow mushroom, but can be readily separated from it.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The common meadow mushroom is found from September to frost.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard