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• portobello
  portobello

  noun

  portabella.
• Portobello
  Portobello

  noun

  a small seaport on the Caribbean coast of Panama, NE of Colón: harbor discovered and named by Columbus 1502; a principal city of Spanish colonial America.

portobello

¹ American  

[pawr-tuh-bel-oh, pohr-] / ˌpɔr təˈbɛl oʊ, ˌpoʊr- /

noun

portobellos plural

1. portabella.

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Portobello ² American  

[pawr-toh-bel-oh, pohr-] / ˌpɔr toʊˈbɛl oʊ, ˌpoʊr- /

noun

1. a small seaport on the Caribbean coast of Panama, NE of Colón: harbor discovered and named by Columbus 1502; a principal city of Spanish colonial America.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• portobellos
  plural

Example Sentences

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portobello Portobello portobellos

A lady friend, finding out they didn’t have food at the apartment, invited him and his friend to her place overlooking the ocean for a dinner of pork chops and stuffed portobello mushrooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

The main course will include portobello mushrooms and creamy saffron-infused risotto, with rose and cardamom-infused strawberry shortcake featured for dessert.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023

Whether you're using cremini, oyster, portobello, white button or practically any other variety, these techniques are all applicable.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

Cumin, coriander and paprika add smokiness to these shawarma-inspired portobello mushrooms.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

However, if you are hosting a barbecue with vegan or vegetarian guests, please don’t think, “Great, I’ll grill up some portobello mushrooms for them and call it good.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

Venice Beach struck him as a more body-beautiful version of London’s Portobello Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

But Heymans says Portobello Beach near Edinburgh is also a good place for urban aurora spotting as there are few streetlights and it faces north.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Earlier, Scotland's National Piper, Louise Marshall, played a lament at dawn to the fallen on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

Rose, who died in January at age 75, worked at the time at the Portobello Hotel in West London.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

The sale had gone through quickly, and Immie and her friends had shopped in the Portobello Road market for antiques and in Harrods for textiles.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

But white button, brown cremini and giant portobellos are all the same variety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Grilled portobellos are delicious, but they have almost no protein, so they don’t make for a very sustaining meal.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

This rich, decidedly chunky sauce starts by large-dicing and searing meaty portobellos, which are removed before the pan gets deglazed with white wine previously used to rehydrate dried porcinis.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021

The portobellos, of course, are the meatiest mushrooms around, so they’re a natural.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2018

Ten pounds of button mushrooms are reduced to a syrup that she then uses to finish a sautéed mix of whatever wild mushrooms her forager brings her — lately, oysters, shiitakes, portobellos and maitakes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2015