Morel

Definitions

1. A municipality in Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
2. A surname.
3. A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.
4. Synonym of morello (“type of cherry”).
   archaic
5. A village and former municipality, now in Mörel-Filet municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
6. Certain plants or genera Solanum, Atropa, and Aralia, with dark, cherry-like berries.

Equivalents

Examples

“The insects which injure⟳ the morel cherry-trees so much in Pennsylvania, I perceive, here occasionally act in the same way upon the branches of the wild cherry […]”

“It exists in both these plants, but whilst the leaves of the last⟳ one contain⟳ it in some quantity, none is found in those of the morel.”

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