morel

morel

English

a morel Morchella conica

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Frankish *morhila (“mushroom”), diminutive of *morha (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to Old High German morhilo, morhela (“mushroom”) (German Morchel (“morel”)), diminutive of Old High German morha, moraha (“tree-root, plant root”) (German Möhre (“carrot”)). Equivalent to dialectal more (“carrot, root”) +‎ -el.

Alternative forms

• morell, moril

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

morel (plural morels)

1. Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel.
   • 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 388:

     The slightly sulfurous, meaty odor of morels attracts flies, which lay eggs in the safety of the mushroom's hollow stalk.

2. Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.

Derived terms

• black morel (Morchella angusticeps, Morchella conica, Morchella elata, Morchella septentrionalis)
• white morel, Morchella deliciosa
• yellow morel, Morchella esculenta

Translations

genus Morchella

Afrikaans: morielje Arabic: غَوْشَنَة‎ f (ḡawšana) Armenian: մորկեղ (morkeł) Breton: morukl Bulgarian: смръ́чкула f (smrǎ́čkula) Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏒᏙᏂ (unisvdoni) Chinese: Mandarin: 羊肚菌 (yángdùjùn) Crimean Tatar: qozu mantarı Czech: smrž (cs) m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: morielje (nl) f or m Esperanto: morkelo (eo) Finnish: huhtasieni (fi) French: morille (fr) f German: Morchel (de) f Hungarian: kucsmagomba (hu) Irish: morchal m Italian: spugnola f Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: смрчак m (smrčak) Norwegian: Bokmål: morkel (no) m Ottoman Turkish: یر الماسی‎ (yer elması) Polish: smardz (pl) m Romanian: zbârciog (ro) m Russian: сморчо́к (ru) m (smorčók) Serbo-Croatian: smŕčak (sh) m Slovak: smrž m, smrčok m Slovene: smȓčək m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: smarž m Upper Sorbian: smorž m, smorža f Spanish: colmenilla f, colmena (es) f, morilla f, múrgol m, cagarria f Swedish: murkla (sv) c Ukrainian: змо́ршок m (zmóršok) Volapük: morgil Welsh: morel m

common morel or yellow morel, Morchella esculenta

Catalan: múrgola f Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏒᏙᏂ (unisvdoni) Finnish: pallohuhtasieni German: Speisemorchel (de) f, Speise-Morchel f, Rundmorchel f, Rund-Morchel f Irish: morchal coiteann m Japanese: 網笠茸, アミガサダケ (amigasa-dake) Latvian: lāčpurns m Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: smardz jadalny Russian: сморчок съедо́бный m (smorčok sʺjedóbnyj) Serbo-Croatian: prȁvī smŕčak m Swedish: rund toppmurkla c Ukrainian: зморшок їстівний m (zmoršok jistivnyj)

See also

• false morel
• great morel
• petty morel

Noun

morel (plural morels)

1. Archaic form of morello (“type of cherry”).
   • 1821, Thomas Nuttall, A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory (page 122)

     The insects which injure the morel cherry-trees so much in Pennsylvania, I perceive, here occasionally act in the same way upon the branches of the wild cherry […]

Anagrams

• Lomer, Merlo