BLACK MOREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black morel mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK MOREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black morel; conic morel; Morchella angusticeps; Morchella conica; narrowhead morel

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

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

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

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