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ashen knight

ashen knight noun: the mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.

Noun

ashen knight (plural ashen knights)

  1. The mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.
    • The ashen knight (T. virgatum) is toxic, grows under spruce trees, and has a fibrillose cap, gills with black edges, and a tangy flesh when chewed.2020 May 5, Guillaume Eyssartier, The Ultimate Guide to Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ashen, knight.

Forms of ashen knight

pluralashen knights

Questions about ashen knight

What does ashen knight mean?
Ashen knight means the mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.
What part of speech is ashen knight?
Ashen knight is a noun.
What is the plural of ashen knight?
The plural of ashen knight is ashen knights.

Words near ashen knight in the dictionary

  1. Ashe juniper
  2. Ashe junipers
  3. Asheboro
  4. ashed
  5. ashen
  6. ashen knight
  7. ashen knights
  8. ashen-faced
  9. Ashendon
  10. ashened
  11. ashening

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