shaggy cap

1. 1.

   common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores

   Synonymsshaggymaneshaggymane mushroomCoprinus comatus

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofCoprinus

Questions about shaggy cap

What does shaggy cap mean?

shaggy cap means "common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores".

What is another word for shaggy cap?

Close synonyms include shaggymane, shaggymane mushroom, Coprinus comatus. 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 shaggy cap a common word?

shaggy cap 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.