ashen knight

noun

The mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounashen knight (plural ashen knights)

plural ashen knights

  1. The mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.

    The ashen knight (T. virgatum) is toxic, grows under spruce trees, and has a fibrillose cap, gills with black edges, and a tangy flesh when chewed.

    2020 May 5, Guillaume Eyssartier, The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ashen, knight.
Cite this entry
APA

ashen knight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ashen%20knight

MLA

“ashen knight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ashen%20knight. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ashen knight,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ashen%20knight.

Source: ashen knight on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.