mousseron

Meaning

St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa)

Concepts

St. George’s mushroom

miller

sweetbread mushroom

Synonyms

farine

farineux

langue de carpe

meunier

mousseron de la Saint-Georges

mousseron de printemps

mousserron vrai

tricholome de St-Georges

tricholome de la St Georges

Clitocybe des aiguilles

clitopile petite prune

clitopile petite-prune

clitopile pruineux

Translations

mucerón

keçimantarı

Maipilz

Mairitterling

Mehlpilz

Mehlräsling

Calocybe gambosa

grosser Mehl-Räsling

Clitopilus prunulus

Clitocybe pithyophila

Lyophillum georgii

Tricholoma gambosum

Tricholoma georgii

Clitocybe cerussata

Mai-Schönkopf

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: mouceron

Inherited from Old French: moisserun

Cognate with Occitan: mossalon

Cognate with Catalan: moixernó

In summary

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.
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