winter mushroom

1. 1.

   an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters

   SynonymsFlammulina velutipes

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofFlammulina

Questions about winter mushroom

What does winter mushroom mean?

winter mushroom means "an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters".

What is another word for winter mushroom?

Close synonyms include Flammulina velutipes. 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 winter mushroom a common word?

winter mushroom 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.