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

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.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The common meadow mushroom is found from September to frost.

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

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