different between morel vs mohel

English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Frankish *morhila (“mushroom”), diminutive of *morha (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *murh?, *murhij? (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to Old High German morhilo, morhela (“mushroom”) (German Morchel (“morel”)), diminutive of Old High German morha, moraha (“tree-root, plant root”) (German Möhre (“carrot”)). More at more.

Alternative forms

• moril

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m????l/

Noun

morel (plural morels)

1. Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel.
2. Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.

Derived terms

• black morel, Morchella angusticeps
• black morel, Morchella conica
• black morel, Morchella elata
• black morel, Morchella septentrionalis
• white morel, Morchella deliciosa
• yellow morel, Morchella esculenta

Translations

See also

• false morel
• great morel
• petty morel

Etymology 2

Noun

morel (plural morels)

1. Archaic form of morello (“type of cherry”).
   • 1821, Thomas Nuttall, A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory (page 122)

     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 […]

Anagrams

• Lomer, Merlo

English

Etymology

Hebrew ?????, possibly via Yiddish ????? (moyel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??.?l/, /?m??.?l/
• Homophone: moil

Noun

mohel (plural mohels or mohelim or mohalim)

1. (Judaism) The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.

Translations

See also

• bris

Anagrams

• Holme, Homel, holme