black morel

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   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

   SynonymsMorchella conicaconic morelMorchella angusticepsnarrowhead morel

   Broadermorel

   Part ofMorchellaceae

Questions about black morel

What does black morel mean?

black morel means "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".

What is another word for black morel?

Close synonyms include Morchella conica, conic morel, Morchella angusticeps, narrowhead morel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black morel a common word?

black morel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.