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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an edible agaric (Tricholoma personatum) that is pale lilac when young.

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  • noun Either of two edible mushrooms of the genus Lepista (or Tricholoma)

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Examples

  • Dressed in Wellington boots and a waxed jacket, Mike Robinson, proprietor of the Harwood Arms pub in London and Pot Kiln pub near Newbury, Berkshire, England, whacks some freshly killed fallow deer onto a home-made barbeque, pulls out some chanterelle and wood-blewit mushrooms plucked from the forests that morning, and throws them into another pan with some rich-yoked duck eggs.

    A New Breed of Epicurean Delights Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Chanterelles, wood-blewit mushrooms, English summer truffles and duck eggs to be prepared in an omlet.

    A New Breed of Epicurean Delights Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Instead we blewit all with lies and bravado by a ouple of cowards whose friends and families stood to gain enormously from war.

    Quote Of The Day 2009

  • Supposedly, Huey Long, the governor of LA, could have been saved had he been operated upon by a sharp young surgeon rather than the old chairman of the department who undertook it and blewit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Do lawyers get better medical and dental treatment? 2007

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  • A type of edible toadstool.

    February 9, 2008