MOREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morel mean? 

• MOREL (noun)
  The noun MOREL has 1 sense:

1. any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap

  Familiarity information: MOREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("morel" is a kind of...):

mushroom (any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morel"):

common morel; Morchella esculenta; sponge morel; sponge mushroom (an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges)

cup morel; Disciotis venosa (an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms)

bell morel; Verpa (a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top)

black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel (a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age)

Morchella crassipes; thick-footed morel (a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits)

cow's head; half-free morel; Morchella semilibera (a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length)

Holonyms ("morel" is a member of...):

genus Morchella; Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)