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Definition of Parasol mushroom
1. Noun. Edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasol Mushroom
Literary usage of Parasol mushroom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungal Flora of the Lehigh Valley, Pa. by William Herbst (1899)
"The parasol mushroom is the type, a delicious and wholesome fungi. ... Parasol
mushroom, from its shape, probably from the ring on the stipe being movable ..."
2. Some Autumn Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell (1911)
"The parasol mushroom lifts itself like a golf ball at the end of a lengthening
stick and you watch it for two or three days to see just how tall it will ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"... has a stem 6 or 8 in. high, hollow, with a loose pith, and tapering upward
from a pear- like bulb at the base; ring loose on the stem; parasol mushroom ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"C. micaceus, the glistening coprinus, is a brownish species smaller than the
preceding. It grows upon decaying wood. Lepiota procera. the parasol mushroom, ..."
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