Morel Definition

mə-rĕl, mô-
morels
noun
Any of a genus (Morchella) of edible ascomycetous mushrooms resembling a sponge on a stalk.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Morel

Noun

Singular:
morel
Plural:
morels

Origin of Morel

  • Borrowing from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom")), from Frankish *morhila (“mushroom"), diminutive of *morha (“root"), from Proto-Germanic *murhō(n), *murhijō(n) (“carrot"), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb"). Akin to Old High German morhilo, morhela (“mushroom") (German Morchel (“mushroom")), diminutive of Old High German morha, moraha (“tree-root, plant root") (German Möhre (“carrot")). More at more.

    From Wiktionary

  • French morille from Old French perhaps from Vulgar Latin maurīcula feminine diminutive of Latin Maurus Mauritanian, Moor Moor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Morel Sentence Examples

  • Morel, wrinkling up his face, laughed too.

  • The last step in the development of the Waldensian body was taken in 1530, when two deputies of the Vaudois in Dauphine and Provence, Georges Morel and Pierre Masson, were sent to confer with the German and Swiss Reformers.

  • Morel will warm us up another little bottle.

  • Morel! he called out gaily.

  • Morel brought candles and a bottle of wine.

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