Difference between Champignon and Mushroom

What is the difference between Champignon and Mushroom?

Champignon as a noun is agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking while Mushroom as a noun is any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

Champignon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking

Mushroom

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Containing or being made of mushrooms.Resembling a mushroom by shape or appearance.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grow quickly to a large size.To gather mushrooms.

We hope you now know whether to use Champignon or Mushroom in your sentence.

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