half-free morel

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMorchella semiliberacow's head

   Broadermorel

   Part ofMorchellaceae

Questions about half-free morel

What does half-free morel mean?

half-free morel means "a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length".

What is another word for half-free morel?

Close synonyms include Morchella semilibera, cow's head. 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 half-free morel a common word?

half-free 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.