Definition of Genus morchella

1. Noun. Genus of edible fungi: morel.

Exact synonyms: Morchella
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Member holonyms: Morel, Common Morel, Morchella Esculenta, Sponge Morel, Sponge Mushroom
Group relationships: Family Helvellaceae, Helvellaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Morchella

genus Momordica
genus Momotus
genus Monarda
genus Monardella
genus Moneses
genus Monilia
genus Monocanthus
genus Monochamus
genus Monodon
genus Monomorium
genus Mononychus
genus Monotropa
genus Monstera
genus Montezuma
genus Montia
genus Morchella
genus Morone
genus Morus
genus Moschus
genus Motacilla
genus Mucor
genus Mucuna
genus Mugil
genus Muhlenbergia
genus Mulloidichthys
genus Mullus
genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa

Literary usage of Genus morchella

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

1. The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of Our by Nina Lovering Marshall (1904)
"The genus Morchella has the cap covered with a network of blunt ridges enclosing irregular depressed spaces. The spore-sacs are developed in both ridges and ..."

2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"... be better known than it is at present The genus Morchella comprises very few species, and they are all good to eat : of these, according to Dr Badham, . ..."

3. Outlines of botany by Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1835)
"Helvella, as now generically defined, does not include fungi so much prized by modern epicures as the allied genus Morchella: some few, however, ..."

4. The Indian Forester (1885)
"The genus Morchella is distinguished by a deeply pitted naked head supported on a peduncle. The depressions are sometimes regular, but occasionally they ..."

5. Mushroom culture: its extension and improvement by William Robinson (1870)
"The genus Morchella comprises very few species, and they are all good to eat. Persoon remarks, that though the Morel rarely appears in a sandy soil, ..."

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