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Definition of Oyster agaric

1. Noun. Edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Agaric

Literary usage of Oyster agaric

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

1. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"It is very difficult to distinguish this species from the oyster agaric. ... Peck suggests that it may only be a variety of the oyster agaric. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"It develops under the bark long Mack cords of mycelium. The plant is edible. Pleurotus contains several edible species: the oyster agaric, ..."

3. Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of by Charles Abbot (1798)
"oyster agaric. — A. ostreatus. Between bundled and tiled, cap ash-colored, obversely ovate, edge rolled in, gills whitish, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"These so-called pink spores will retain their color for many months in a strong light. However, after a study of the very similar oyster agaric ..."

5. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Hereford, England, G. H. Jack (1869)
"The President thought he saw the oyster agaric A. ostreatus on » gate post. It was only a Polyporus squamosus, however,—good for making razor strops—so the ..."

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