champignon
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prettygoodwordchampignon (sham-PIN-yuhn (US), cham-PIN-yuhn (UK), shahn-pee-NYAWN (FR)) - n., an edible mushroom, especially the much cultivated species Agaricus bisporus.
The common mushroom most easily found in grocery stores -- the immature form of Agaricus bisporus, which comes in white and brown morphs. The white immature champignon are also called white mushroom, button mushroom, and table mushroom; the brown immature ones are also called crimini/cremini, Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown mushroom, and chestnut mushroom; and the mature form, which has a cap 4–6 in (10-15 cm) across, are instead called portabella/portabello/portobello. Yeah, I hadn't realized portabellas are the same species. Whatever you call them, I do love me some 'shrooms:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
The name is, naturally, from French, taken on in either the 16th or 17th centuries (dictionaries disagree), from Old French champigneul, probably from Vulgar Latin *(fungus) campiniolus, (fungus) growing in the fields, from Late Latin campānia, countryside.
---L.
The common mushroom most easily found in grocery stores -- the immature form of Agaricus bisporus, which comes in white and brown morphs. The white immature champignon are also called white mushroom, button mushroom, and table mushroom; the brown immature ones are also called crimini/cremini, Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown mushroom, and chestnut mushroom; and the mature form, which has a cap 4–6 in (10-15 cm) across, are instead called portabella/portabello/portobello. Yeah, I hadn't realized portabellas are the same species. Whatever you call them, I do love me some 'shrooms:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
The name is, naturally, from French, taken on in either the 16th or 17th centuries (dictionaries disagree), from Old French champigneul, probably from Vulgar Latin *(fungus) campiniolus, (fungus) growing in the fields, from Late Latin campānia, countryside.
---L.
