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The mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, which in the wild grows chiefly on hardwood trees, and is cultivated for food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Any of several mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus cultivated for food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2006, OECD, Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms, OECD Consensus Documents, Volume 1, page 277, Oyster mushroom is regarded as one of the commercially important edible mushrooms throughout the world. It consists of a number of different species including Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus sajor-caju, [...] The oyster mushroom is the second most important mushroom in production around the world, accounting for 25% of total world production of cultivated mushrooms.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oyster fungus, oyster agaric, Pleurotus ostreatus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agaric
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
кладница
(kladnica)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Catalan:
orellana
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
蠔菇 /蚝菇
(háogū)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
側耳 /侧耳
(cè'ěr)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
平菇
(pínggū)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
秀珍菇
(xiùzhēngū)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
糙皮側耳 /糙皮侧耳
(cāopí cè'ěr)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Chinese Mandarin:
黑牡丹菇
(hēimǔdāngū)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Czech:
hlíva ústřičná
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Dutch:
oesterzwam
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Estonian:
austerservik
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Finnish:
osterivinokas
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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French:
pleurote en huître
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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German:
Austernpilz
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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German:
Austern-Seitling
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Hungarian:
késői laskagomba
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Macedonian:
буковка
(bukovka)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Malay:
cendawan tiram
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Malayalam:
ചിപ്പിക്കൂൺ
(cippikkūṇ)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Mongolian:
хясаан мөөг
(xjasaan möög)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Norwegian Bokmål:
østerssopp
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Occitan:
codèrla
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Polish:
boczniak ostrygowaty
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Russian:
вёшенка
(vjóšenka)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Slovak:
hliva ustricová
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Spanish:
seta
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Spanish:
hongo de cardo
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Spanish:
gírgola
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Spanish:
champiñón ostra
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Turkish:
kavak mantarı
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Ukrainian:
гли́ва
(hlýva)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Ukrainian:
плевро́т черепи́частий
(plevrót čerepýčastyj)
— Pleurotus ostreatus
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Catalan:
gírgola
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
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Czech:
hlíva
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
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Dutch:
oesterzwam
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
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Finnish:
osterivinokas
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
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Hungarian:
laskagomba
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
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Polish:
boczniak
— mushroom of the genus Pleurotus
