n.
Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella and related genera, characterized by a brownish spongelike cap.
[French morille, from Old French, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *maurīcula, feminine diminutive of Latin Maurus, Mauritanian, Moor. See Moor.]
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