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beefsteak mushroom

noun

Etymology

From beefsteak + mushroom. From being a fungus that looks like a steak of beef.

  1. derived from *mews-✻ — “mosses, mold, mildew”
  2. derived from *musą✻
  3. derived from *mosa✻ — “moss”
  4. derived from *mosu✻ — “moss”
  5. derived from mosse
  6. derived from moisseron
  7. derived from musherum
  8. inherited from muscheron
  9. compounded as beefsteak mushroom — “beefsteak + mushroom”

Definitions

  1. Fistulina hepatica (an edible fungus).

  2. Gyromitra esculenta (a potentially fatally poisonous fungus that is a delicacy).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beefsteak mushroom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA