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champignon

Any of a number of edible fungi (see fungus). The fairy ring champignon (Marasmius oreades) has this name because its fruiting bodies (mushrooms) grow in rings around the outer edge of the underground mycelium (threadlike body) of the fungus. (Family Agaricaceae.)


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