champignon

plural champignons

1. countableuncountableAny mushroom of the genus Agaricus.
   1. countableuncountableAgaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking.

      Galette of champignon with bacon was a wet puff pastry shell holding overcooked mushrooms and, as far as we could tell, no bacon.

      1978 January 13, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2024

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      Moscow’s food stores, formerly famed for bare shelves and long lines, are now kept stocked with fresh champignons and greens[…].

      2007 January 31, C[hristopher] J[ohn] Chivers, “A Soviet Agricultural Success: Vast Greenhouse Complex”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2013

      Synonyms: button mushroom, cremini, crimini, cultivated mushroom, portobello, table mushroom

2. countableobsoleteuncountableAny mushroom.

   The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]

   1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47

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   The first time that one steals forth in quest of the coveted but feared fungus he hides his purpose as though meditating a crime; and the memory of many warnings robs his first meal of “champignon on toast” of half its flavor.

   1901 July 7, Catherine Thayer, “On the Trail of the Mushroom”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC