pleurotus ostreatus

1. 1.

   edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood

   Synonymsoyster mushroomoyster fungusoyster agaric

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofPleurotus

Questions about pleurotus ostreatus

What does pleurotus ostreatus mean?

pleurotus ostreatus means "edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood".

What is another word for pleurotus ostreatus?

Close synonyms include oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, oyster agaric. 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 pleurotus ostreatus a common word?

pleurotus ostreatus 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.