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Definition of horse mushroom in English: horse mushroomnoun A large edible mushroom with a creamy-white cap and pinkish-grey gills, found in grassland in Eurasia and North America. Agaricus arvensis, family Agaricaceae, class Hymenomycetes Example sentencesExamples - On being cut or broken, the flesh of the true mushroom remains white or nearly so, the flesh of the coarser horse mushroom changes to buff or sometimes to dark brown.
- Look for field and horse mushrooms in fields grazed by horses or traditional breeds of cattle, where there are plenty of wildflowers and where the dominant grass isn't rye-grass.
- While the horse mushroom will stain slightly yellow, it has a sweet odor that separates it immediately from its emetic cousins, and the base of its stem does not stain yellow like the others.
- We used to eat freshwater mussels from the river and cook the horse mushrooms that sprang up overnight in the fields, too, but she's right, I wouldn't do that now.
- Scotland produces all sorts of edible wild mushrooms - parasols, horse mushrooms, field mushrooms and wood blewits to name but a few - but you must be sure of what they are before eating them or you could end up in hospital or worse.
Definition of horse mushroom in US English: horse mushroomnoun A large edible mushroom with a creamy-white cap and pinkish-gray gills, found in grassland in both Eurasia and North America. Agaricus arvensis, family Agaricaceae, class Hymenomycetes Example sentencesExamples - On being cut or broken, the flesh of the true mushroom remains white or nearly so, the flesh of the coarser horse mushroom changes to buff or sometimes to dark brown.
- While the horse mushroom will stain slightly yellow, it has a sweet odor that separates it immediately from its emetic cousins, and the base of its stem does not stain yellow like the others.
- Scotland produces all sorts of edible wild mushrooms - parasols, horse mushrooms, field mushrooms and wood blewits to name but a few - but you must be sure of what they are before eating them or you could end up in hospital or worse.
- Look for field and horse mushrooms in fields grazed by horses or traditional breeds of cattle, where there are plenty of wildflowers and where the dominant grass isn't rye-grass.
- We used to eat freshwater mussels from the river and cook the horse mushrooms that sprang up overnight in the fields, too, but she's right, I wouldn't do that now.
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