ashen knight

English

Noun

ashen knight (plural ashen knights)

  1. The mushroom Tricholoma virgatum.
    • 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:
      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.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ashen,‎ knight.
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