morel

Meaning

Noun

• Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel.
• Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.

Origin

• Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule), from Frankish *morhila, diminutive of *morha, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mork-. Akin to Old High German morhilo, morhela (German Morchel), diminutive of Old High German morha, moraha (German Möhre). More at more.