Associations to the word «Pleurotus»

Wiktionary

PLEUROTUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Pleurotaceae   — certain gilled mushrooms, including some widely eaten species.
PLEUROTUS ERYNGII, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Pleurotaceae   — king oyster mushroom.
PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Pleurotaceae   — oyster mushroom.

Dictionary definition

PLEUROTUS, noun. Agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope