white matsutake

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   a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest

   SynonymsArmillaria ponderosa

   Broaderagaric

Questions about white matsutake

What does white matsutake mean?

white matsutake means "a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest".

What is another word for white matsutake?

Close synonyms include Armillaria ponderosa. 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 white matsutake a common word?

white matsutake 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.