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Has a smooth moist cap
Answer for the clue "Has a smooth moist cap ", 7 letters:
blewits
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Word definitions for blewits in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
blewits \blewits\ n. 1. same as blewit . Syn: blewit, Tricholoma personatum.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of edible mushroom.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap [syn: Clitocybe nuda ]
Usage examples of blewits.
His eyes wandered from the mass of green to the dunghill: on top of it he noticed the bolets, chanterelles, blewits and collops that he had picked a little while before.
Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint scent of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, sustained by nature, existing in a void.
The nuns gathered morels and blewits, and Hathumod found an old stand of couch grass in a nearby clearing and dug up the now-bitter roots.
On his saddle-bow lay a net, filled with a variety of mushrooms--bolets of all kinds, blewits, chanterelles, Jew's ears--and now, seeing a fine flush of St Bruno's collops, he sprang from his horse, seized a bush, and scrambled up the bank.
The nuns gathered morels and blewits, and Hathumod found an old stand of couch grass in a nearby clearing and dug up the now-bitter roots.
Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint scent of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, sustained by nature, existing in a void.