Definition of Parasol mushroom

1. Noun. Edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn.

Exact synonyms: Lepiota Procera
Generic synonyms: Agaric
Group relationships: Genus Lepiota

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasol Mushroom

parasitology
parasitome
parasitophobia
parasitophorous
parasitophorous vacuole
parasitoses
parasitosis
parasitotropic
parasitotropism
parasitotropy
paraskavedekatriaphobia
paraskevidekatriaphobia
parasocial
parasol
parasol insertion
parasol mushroom (current term)
parasoled
parasolette
parasolettes
parasols
parasomnia
parasomniac
parasomniacs
parasomnias
paraspecies
parasphenoid
parasphenoids
paraspinal line
parasporal
parasporal body

Literary usage of Parasol mushroom

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

1. Fungal Flora of the Lehigh Valley, Pa. by William Herbst (1899)
"The parasol mushroom is the type, a delicious and wholesome fungi. ... Parasol mushroom, from its shape, probably from the ring on the stipe being movable ..."

2. Some Autumn Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell (1911)
"The parasol mushroom lifts itself like a golf ball at the end of a lengthening stick and you watch it for two or three days to see just how tall it will ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"... has a stem 6 or 8 in. high, hollow, with a loose pith, and tapering upward from a pear- like bulb at the base; ring loose on the stem; parasol mushroom ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"C. micaceus, the glistening coprinus, is a brownish species smaller than the preceding. It grows upon decaying wood. Lepiota procera. the parasol mushroom, ..."

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