oyster fungus

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Noun

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oyster fungus - edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead woodoyster agaric, oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatusagaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the undersidegenus Pleurotus, Pleurotus - agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan