Meanings
adjectiveboletic (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to, derived from, or characteristic of mushrooms of the genus Boletus.
I inhaled deeply the dank, boletic smell around the woody fungus.
1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, page 1642 more examples
Its shady recesses would then harbor that special boletic reek which makes a Russian’s nostrils dilate— a dark, dank, satisfying blend of damp moss, rich earth, rotting leaves.
1947, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1979 Paragon paperback), page 47It was the dank smell of the earth turning leaves and needles to rich soil, a beautiful rotting boletic smell that meant mushrooms.
2016, Gina Ochsner, The Hidden Letters of Velta B., page 90
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