mousseron

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mouceron, from Old French moisserun, moisseron (compare Late Latin mussirio, Occitan mossalon, Catalan moixernó), of uncertain origin:

Probably ultimately derived from Old French mosse, moise (“moss”), of Germanic origin, from Old Dutch *mos, from Frankish *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą, as the type of fungus so-named applied to one which grows in moss.
Klein and Watkins prefer a pre-Roman substrate origin, if the earlier form was something like Vulgar Latin *mussariōn.^[1]

More at mushroom.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mousseron m (plural mousserons)

St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa)

References

^ “mushroom”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

“mousseron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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