noun
edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
• Syn: ↑oyster fungus, ↑oyster agaric, ↑Pleurotus ostreatus
• Hypernyms: ↑agaric
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pleurotus, ↑genus Pleurotus
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a type of wide, flat ↑fungus that grows on trees and that you can eat
Useful english dictionary. 2012.