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Mushroom (an archaic form is mushrump)

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(French, mousseron, a white mushroom; Latin, muscus, moss.)

“Vocatur fungus muscārum, eo quod in lacte pulverizatus interficit muscas.”—Albertus Magnus, vii. 345

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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