Noun: morel
| Singular | morel |
| Plural | morels |
Sample Sentences
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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 […] [1821, Thomas Nuttall, A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory, page 122:]
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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. [1836, François Magendie, A Formulary for the Preparation and Medical Administration of Certain New Remedies, page 142:]
Nouns inflected like morel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Middle High German morhel, morchel (“edible fungus, morel”), from Old High German morhila (“edible root”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *morhā (“tree root, plant root”), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ (“edible root”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to German Morchel (“morel”), Middle Low German morke (“mushroom, morel”), German Möhre (“carrot”). Equivalent to dialectal more (“carrot, root”) + -el (diminutive suffix). See: French Nouns '
morille', German Nouns '
Morchel', German Nouns '
Möhre'.