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blewits

/ˈbluːɪts/

blewits noun: a type of edible mushroom.

Noun

blewits (plural blewits)

  1. A type of edible mushroom.
    • Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98

Forms of blewits

pluralblewits

Origin of blewits

Probably from blue.

Questions about blewits

What does blewits mean?
Blewits means a type of edible mushroom.
What part of speech is blewits?
Blewits is a noun.
How do you pronounce blewits?
Blewits is pronounced /ˈbluːɪts/.
What is the plural of blewits?
The plural of blewits is blewits.

Words near blewits in the dictionary

  1. blewest
  2. Blewett
  3. Blewetts
  4. Blewish
  5. blewit
  6. blewits
  7. blews
  8. Blexas
  9. Blexican
  10. bley
  11. bleyme

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