pluteus cervinus

1. 1.

   a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods

   Synonymsdeer mushroom

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofPluteus

Questions about pluteus cervinus

What does pluteus cervinus mean?

pluteus cervinus means "a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods".

What is another word for pluteus cervinus?

Close synonyms include deer mushroom. 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 pluteus cervinus a common word?

pluteus cervinus 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.