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 humble meadow mushroom, Agaricus campestris, appears in many dishes.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

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 Dunn, Harvey

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

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)

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 Hard, Miron Elisha