parasol mushroom

parasol mushroom

n (Plants) any of several fungi of the basidiomycetous genus Lepiota, having an umbrella-shaped cap, white gills, and a slender brownish stem with a prominent white ring

par′asol mush`room

n. a common edible field mushroom, Macrolepiota (Lepiota) procera, with a light brown, scaly cap.

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parasol mushroom - edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumnLepiota proceraagaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the undersidegenus Lepiota - agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms