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milk mushroom

American  

noun

  1. any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.


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No matter: the vermin devour the mild milk mushroom with the same zest with which they devour the horribly peppered one.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Well, that stomach the vermin possess: they revel in the pungency of the woolly milk mushroom even as the spurge caterpillar browses with delight on the loathsome leaves of the euphorbiae.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Here the violent spices of the woolly milk mushroom disappear; the flesh has a pleasant taste when eaten raw.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Reserve a little of the mixture and to it add some tomato juice or milk, mushroom ketchup, or diluted extract.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)

From its flesh laid bare by being broken or cut ooze blood-red drops, a well-defined characteristic peculiar to this milk mushroom.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander