my·coph·a·gous

(mī-kŏf′ə-gəs)

adj.

Feeding on fungi.

my′co·phage (-kə-fāj′) n.

my·coph′a·gy (-ə-jē) n.

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mycophagy

(maɪˈkɒfədʒɪ)

1. (Cookery) the eating of mushrooms

2. (Biology) the use of fungi as a source of nourishment

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Noun

mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)

eating, feeding - the act of consuming food

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Keys to spores of the genera of hypogeous fungi of North temperate florests with special reference to animal mycophagy. Mad River Press.

Primer reporte y distribucion de Delastria rosea (Pezizales: Incertae sedis) en Mexico /New record and distribution of Delastria rosea (Pezizales: Incertae sedis) in Mexico

Observations on Ciidae (Coleoptera) with particular reference to mycophagy. Entomol.

The invasive beetle Cis bilamellatus (Coleoptera: Ciidae) arrives in America

Seasonal variation in mycophagy by the western red-backed vole, Clethrionomys californicus, in southwestern Oregon.

The multifunctional role of ectomycorrhizal associations in forest ecosystem processes

Some of my earliest childhood recollections involve weekend afternoons in late summer and fall when the entire house would fill with a particularly noxious odor--one that can be created only by what I now consider to be a cardinal sin of mycophagy (eating mushrooms): the boiling of mushrooms.

Hunting mushrooms

Fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae, Sciaridae) and the role of mycophagy in soil: a review.

Identificacion y caracterizacion de la mosca negra, Bradysia difformis (Diptera: Sciaridae) en el cultivo de nochebuena (Euphorbia pulcherrima) en el centro de Mexico

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