boletic
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- Relating to, derived from, or characteristic of mushrooms of the genus Boletus.
- 1947, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1979 Paragon paperback), page 47:
- Its shady recesses would then harbor that special boletic reek which makes a Russian’s nostrils dilate— a dark, dank, satisfying blend of damp moss, rich earth, rotting leaves.
- 1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, page 164:
- I inhaled deeply the dank, boletic smell around the woody fungus.
- 2016, Gina Ochsner, The Hidden Letters of Velta B., page 90:
- It was the dank smell of the earth turning leaves and needles to rich soil, a beautiful rotting boletic smell that meant mushrooms.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:boletic.
- 1947, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1979 Paragon paperback), page 47: