Meanings
- A type of edible mushroom.
Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.
1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98
Synonyms & antonyms
nounedible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Probably from blue.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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