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Definition of Mycophagy
1. Noun. The practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild).
Definition of Mycophagy
1. [n -GIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycophagy
Literary usage of Mycophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"He was accustomed to distribute basketfuls of the choicest specimens among his
friends, "until the divine art of mycophagy reached a good degree of ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"As it is, my hobby is mycophagy, or to descend to common and unlearned language,
fungus-eating. This, Sir, is not a merely animal pursuit ; on the contrary, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"He was accustomed to distribute basketfuls of the choicest F; mens among his
friends, "until the divine art of mycophagy reached a good degree of ..."
4. Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and how to Distinguish Them: A Selection by William Hamilton Gibson (1899)
"The most conspicuous disciple of mycophagy—almost the pioneer, indeed, in America —
was the late Rev. MA Curtis, of North Carolina, ..."
5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1901)
"... The rare, 9 Murrill, WA, The generative Divisions in Gymnosperms, 131 ;
personal, 12 mycophagy and its Literature, 43 Myrica cerifera, ..."
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