deceiving knight
deceiving knight noun: the mushroom Tricholoma sejunctum.
Noun
deceiving knight (plural deceiving knights)
- The mushroom Tricholoma sejunctum.
- Deceiving Knight Tricholoma sejunctum (Sowerby) Quél. (illustrated 50% life size) Cap 4-10cm across, conico-convex then expanded; yellowish-green, more brown or greyish-brown towards the centre, radially streaky; moist[…]2013 September 12, Roger Phillips, Mushrooms, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 106
- ... deceiving knight T. sejunctum (most records from the southern half of England and the Highlands, on oak and birches), gassy knight T. inamoenum (on soil in often calcareous grassland and deciduous and woodland), larch knight[…]2020 January 13, Dr. Peter Jarvis, The Pelagic Dictionary of Natural History of the British Isles: Descriptions of all Species with a Common Name, Pelagic Publishing Ltd, →ISBN
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deceiving, knight.
Forms of deceiving knight
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Questions about deceiving knight
- What does deceiving knight mean?
- Deceiving knight means the mushroom Tricholoma sejunctum.
- What part of speech is deceiving knight?
- Deceiving knight is a noun.
- What is the plural of deceiving knight?
- The plural of deceiving knight is deceiving knights.
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