mousseron

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French mouceron, from Old French moisserun, moisseron (compare Late Latin mussirio, Occitan mossalon, Catalan moixernó), of uncertain origin: Probably ultimately derived from Old French mosse, moise (“moss”), of Germanic origin, from Old Dutch *mos, from Frankish *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą, as the type of fungus so-named applied to one which grows in moss. Klein and Watkins prefer a pre-Roman substrate origin, if the earlier form was something like Vulgar Latin *mussariōn. More at mushroom. === Pronunciation === === Noun === mousseron m (plural mousserons) St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa) === References === === Further reading === “mousseron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012