Re: Intergermansk - mushrooms

caeruleancentaur wrote:

> >"Mushroom" is the general term, just like e.g. "tree" is general.
> >"Champignon" is a specific type of mushroom, just like an "oak" is a
> >specific type of tree.
>
>If "champignon" is the name of a specific species of mushroom, what
>is the generic French word for "mushroom"?  If there isn't one then
>one must know the species of mushroom before one can talk about it or
>order it, which strikes me as rather cumbersome.
No, "champignon" is really the generic term for mushrooms in French and each
specie has an other name, often its latin classification by order, kind,
group, specie...

I didn't know champignon was a specie in English...


It's probably another difference in species names like "penguin" wich is the
name of both the bird living in North Pole wich flies called in French
"pinguin" and the other in South Pole wich doesn't flies called "manchot" in
French

- Max

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