oyster mushroom

oyster mushroomPleurotus pulmonarius

oyster mushroom

n. Any of several edible mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus, having a soft, flavorful, grayish cap.

oyster mushroom

n (Botany) an edible fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus, having an oyster-shaped cap, commonly found growing in clusters on the trunks of broad-leaved trees

oys′ter mush`room

n. an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees or their stumps. [1870–75]

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oyster mushroom - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead woodoyster agaric, oyster fungus, Pleurotus ostreatusagaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the undersidegenus Pleurotus, Pleurotus - agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan