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nounany of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike captype of:
Definition that contains morel
- mushroom mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- kirsch from fermented juice of black morello cherries
- bell morel a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top
- narrowhead morel a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age
- morchella genus of edible fungi: morel
- verpa a morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top
- half-free morel a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length
- conic verpa a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile
- morchella esculenta an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges
- family helvellaceae family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous