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oyster mushroom
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oyster mushroom
n.
Any of several edible mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus, having a soft, flavorful, grayish cap.
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oyster mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
oyster mushroom
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an edible fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus, having an oyster-shaped cap, commonly found growing in clusters on the trunks of broad-leaved trees
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Noun1.oyster mushroomoyster mushroom - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
oyster agaric, oyster fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus
agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside
genus Pleurotus, Pleurotus - agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan


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