Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know

En réponse à John Cowan :


>Technically, a mushroom is the fruiting body, the part that sticks up
>above the soil (or other substrate) and is eaten.  "Toadstool", as others
>have said, refers to a poisonous mushroom.  Fungi that do not have
>fruiting bodies are called "molds", especially when they invade food.
>(This is usually bad, although in the case of blue cheese, which is
>cheese invaded by _Penicillium notatum_, the common blue-green mold of bread,
>it is considered good.  Go figure.)
It just depends on the species that invaded the cheese. Most have a
negative effect, but some have a positive one :) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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