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WHITE MATSUTAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest
Synonyms:
Armillaria ponderosa; white matsutake
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("white matsutake" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)