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Definition of Genus Morchella
1. Noun. Genus of edible fungi: morel.
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
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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