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meadow mushroom

noun

  1. a saprotrophic agaricaceous edible fungus, Agaricus campestris , having a white cap with pink or brown gills on the underside
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The sort your Charlie used to gather was the Agaricus Campestris, or meadow mushroom—one of the commonest and best.

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.

As a matter of fact, for all practicable purposes, there is only one species that is generally eaten,—the Agaricus campestris, or meadow mushroom.

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.

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

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