champignon

Borrowed from French champignon.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃæmˈpɪnjən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmˈpɪnjən/

champignon (plural champignons)

Some champignon tops, cleaned and, in one case, bisected.

1. Agaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking.
   • 2007 January 31, C. J. Chivers, “A Soviet Agricultural Success: Vast Greenhouse Complex”, in New York Times‎:

     Moscow’s food stores, formerly famed for bare shelves and long lines, are now kept stocked with fresh champignons and greens […] .

2. (obsolete) Any mushroom.
   • 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:

     The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]

• (Agaricus bisporus): button mushroom, cremini, crimini, cultivated mushroom, portobello mushroom, table mushroom

• fairy ring champignon

• Agaricus bisporus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French champignon.

• IPA^(key): [ɕɑmpʰinˈjʌŋ]

champignon

1. champignon

Borrowed from French champignon, from Middle French champignon.

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɑmpi(n)ˈjɔn/

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• Hyphenation: cham‧pig‧non
• Rhymes: -ɔn

champignon m (plural champignons, diminutive champignonnetje n)

1. A champignon, a button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.

• champignonsaus
• champignonsoep

- individual species:

• champi (clipping)

From Vulgar Latin *campāniolus (“grows in the field”), from Late Latin campāneus (“relating to fields”), from Latin campānia (“level country”). The “accelerator” sense comes from the fact that accelerator pedals were initially mushroom-shaped.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃/

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champignon m (plural champignons)

1. mushroom

   des champignons hallucinogènes ― hallucinogenic mushroom, magic mushroom

2. fungus in general

   Synonym: mycète

   Hyponyms: ascomycète, basidiomycète

3. fungal infection

   avoir des champignons ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (informal) accelerator pedal

   Synonym: accélérateur

   appuyer sur le champignon ― to step on it, to floor it, to put the pedal to the metal, to put one's foot down, to step on the gas

   le pied sur le champignon ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   champignon au plancher ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “champignon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “champignon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

champignon m (invariable)

1. (mycology) champignon, button mushroom, crimini (Agaricus bisporus)

From French champignon.

champignon

1. alternative form of sjampinjong

• “champignon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• champinhom, champinhão (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

champignon m (plural champignons)

1. champignon (Agaricus bisporus, a small, edible mushroom)