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oyster mushroom

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

oyster mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus

oyster mushroom

(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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oyster 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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