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Noun: cup morel
  1. 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 centre; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms
    "The forager carefully identified the cup morel before harvesting";
    - Disciotis venosa

Derived forms: cup morels

Type of: morel

Part of: family Morchellaceae, Morchellaceae