COW'S HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cow's head mean? 

• COW'S HEAD (noun)
  The noun COW'S HEAD has 1 sense:

1. a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length

  Familiarity information: COW'S HEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COW'S HEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera

Hypernyms ("cow's head" is a kind of...):

morel (any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap)

Holonyms ("cow's head" is a member of...):

family Morchellaceae; Morchellaceae (a family of edible fungi including the true morels)

 Context examples 

All went well until I aimed a blow at an outlying cow's head and fell short.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)