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Borrowed from French champignon.

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[1]:

      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

Borrowed from French champignon.

champignon

  1. champignon

Borrowed from French champignon, from Middle French champignon.

  • IPA(key): /ˌʃɑmpi(n)ˈjɔn/
  • Hyphenation: cham‧pig‧non
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

champignon m (plural champignons, diminutive champignonnetje n)

  1. a champignon, a button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus

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]

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)
  1. ^ “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

champignon m (plural champignons)

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