(n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
(n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
(n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
(a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
(a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) The four distinct neuroblasts proliferating in the early larval and late pupal stages are identical; they lie in the cortex above the calyces of the mushroom bodies (corpora pedunculata), proliferating over a period twice as long as that for the other neuroblasts.
(4) A survey of certified regional poison centers in the United States was performed to determine sources of treatment information for mushroom intoxications, and extent of reporting of mushroom epidemiological data to a national mushroom case registry.
(5) The soluble dry matter content of blanched mushrooms was less than 50% of that of the fresh.
(6) There’s little else on the horizon.” There has been a resurgence of medical interest in LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, after several recent trials produced encouraging results for conditions ranging from depression in cancer patients to post-traumatic stress disorder.
(7) Back to the Roots , GroCycle and the Espresso Mushroom Company are selling kits for domestic use that they hope can help make food personal again.
(8) In fact, the body of evidence about how much it matters is mushrooming, so that it seems almost absurd to anyone who knows anything about children's development that we still think that a baby's physical health at the birth is all that matters.
(9) Samples of the same species collected at the same location exhibited large differences, although mixed samples rather than individual mushrooms were measured.
(10) That party powerbase has now mushroomed: when a record 11 Front National mayors were elected across France last year, five were in towns in this southern region.
(11) In parallel, Edinburgh's electricity bill has mushroomed, partly due to a steep surge in the use of personal computers.
(12) In rabbits with adjuvant induced pleuritis, the visceral pleura, but not the costal pleura, showed mushroom-like projections on the pleural surface which were composed of a fibrin mass mixed with phagocytotic macrophages and covered by proliferative mesothelial cells.
(13) In my 70-year lifespan there have never been so many mushroom poisonings as there have been so far this year,” he told the Guardian.
(14) Due to the hepatic toxicity of these mushrooms, we have assessed their incidence on alkaline phosphatase levels and on its isoenzymes.
(15) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(16) In the screening of catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors, three compounds were isolated from the culture filtrate of a mushroom, Inonotus sp.
(17) Accordingly, immunotherapy of Amanita mushroom poisoning in humans does not appear promising.
(18) The entities mimicking metastases were sarcoidosis, mushroom worker's lung, lymphoma and phaeochromocytoma.
(19) Recently, we found thioproline in various cooked foods, including cod and dried shiitake mushrooms.
(20) These mushrooms were extracted with water to estimate the inhibitor activity.
Truffle
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(3) Buzet , a hilltop village near the Slovenia border, celebrates its truffles in November.
(4) I don't mean extraordinary in a Michelin-starred look-at-these-truffled-potatoes kind of way (though she has two Michelin stars: one for the Spotted Pig in Greenwich , the other for the Breslin, in the Ace Hotel in Midtown).
(5) I’d recommend the black angus fillet with this amazing caramel soy sauce and the lobster with white truffle aioli, washed down with a Carousel – a cocktail served with alcoholic cotton candy.
(6) The brutal peaks of the Monte Rosa massif occasionally appear through the clouds while we eat our picnic of bread, ham and pickles, bought from a Swiss supermarket for £12 that morning, which seems a rip-off when we go for a beer in the cafe at the top of the cable car from Macugnaga, and see truffle pasta on the menu for €7.
(7) There, he ate a "wide, tender" circle of celeriac paved with chestnut slices, crisply gratinéed, set in a puddle of truffle sauce – delicious, but simple.
(8) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
(9) Remember what your grandfather used to say: 'The French, they eat black truffle!
(10) Photograph: Alamy For good measure you can bike along its lanes, canoe on its rivers and enjoy the area's confit du canard , Bergerac wines, chèvre, walnut oil and truffles.
(11) Come autumn, there will be prized truffles and mushrooms too.
(12) 1 tbsp honey ⅛ tsp truffle oil 1 radicchio, trimmed and cut lengthways into quarters 1½ tbsp olive oil Salt and black pepper 4 1.5cm-thick slices sourdough 100g taleggio (or mature brie), torn into 1cm pieces 40g parmesan, finely grated 2 tsp picked thyme leaves Put the honey and truffle oil in a small saucepan, warm through gently, just to combine, then take off the heat and set aside.
(13) Fortnum & Mason The luxury department store group posted 16% like-for-like sales growth for the five weeks to 1 January, as shoppers stocked up on tea, hampers, caviar, smoked salmon and white truffles.
(14) The tyrosinase activity is on in the young ascocarps (in the peridium, hypothecium, and fertile veins) and off in the ripe ones, thus it appears correlated with the age and differentiation of the sporogenic hyphae that arise from the hypothecium; a similar correlation has been previously described in Neurospora crassa, which is an ascomycete as well as the truffles.
(15) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(16) Comparisons of mitochondrial DNA now demonstrate a surprisingly close relationship between species of false-truffles in the genus Rhizopogon (Hymenogastraceae) and the mushroom genus Suillus (Boletaceae).
(17) Admission 35 kn Buzet, Croatia The architecture in medieval Buzet, in the Istrian peninsula, is a reminder of the days the Venetian empire ruled this town, and there are some super views overlooking the Mirna River, but most folk come for the truffles.
(18) Here, finally, are salads with more than three ingredients, plus savoury crêpes, pizzas, imaginative stuff like carpaccio of squash, an apple ravioli, and dishes using truffles or ginger and almonds.
(19) The striking morphological differences separating all Suillus species from Rhizopogon imply an acceleration in the rate of morphological change relative to molecular change during the evolution of these false-truffles from their mushroom ancestors.
(20) THE false-truffles (Hymenogastrales) are a group of basidomycetous fungi that produce underground truffle-like basidiocarps.