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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Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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