English > morel: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap. |
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| Member of | Morchella, genus Morchella | genus of edible fungi |
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| Narrower | Disciotis venosa, cup morel | An edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide |
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| Morchella crassipes, thick-footed morel | A delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits |
| Morchella semilibera, half-free morel, cow's head | A morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length |
| Verpa, bell morel | A morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top |
| black morel, Morchella conica, conic morel, Morchella angusticeps, narrowhead morel | A morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it |
| common morel, Morchella esculenta, sponge mushroom, sponge morel | An edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges |
| Broader | mushroom | Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium |
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| Spanish | colmenilla, morel |
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| Catalan | morel, murgola |
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