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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
- genus morchella genus of edible fungi: morel
- conic 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
- thick-footed morel a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits
- morchella crassipes a delicious morel with a conic fertile portion having deep and irregular pits
- disciotis venosa an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms
- 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
- half-free morel a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length