Definition of Oyster agaric

1. Noun. Edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood.

Exact synonyms: Oyster Fungus, Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus Ostreatus
Generic synonyms: Agaric
Group relationships: Genus Pleurotus, Pleurotus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Agaric

oyes
oyeses
oyesses
oyez
oyezes
oyl
oylet
oylets
oynoun
oynouns
oyrur
oys
oyster
oyster-fish
oyster Rockefeller
oyster agaric (current term)
oyster ball
oyster bank
oyster bar
oyster bed
oyster beds
oyster catcher
oyster crab
oyster cracker
oyster crackers
oyster dressing
oyster drill
oyster drills
oyster farm

Literary usage of Oyster agaric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"It is very difficult to distinguish this species from the oyster agaric. ... Peck suggests that it may only be a variety of the oyster agaric. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"It develops under the bark long Mack cords of mycelium. The plant is edible. Pleurotus contains several edible species: the oyster agaric, ..."

3. Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of by Charles Abbot (1798)
"oyster agaric. — A. ostreatus. Between bundled and tiled, cap ash-colored, obversely ovate, edge rolled in, gills whitish, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"These so-called pink spores will retain their color for many months in a strong light. However, after a study of the very similar oyster agaric ..."

5. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Hereford, England, G. H. Jack (1869)
"The President thought he saw the oyster agaric A. ostreatus on » gate post. It was only a Polyporus squamosus, however,—good for making razor strops—so the ..."

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