hlíva.
oyster mushroom, Pleurotus (genus of fungi in the family Pleurotaceae)
Meaning & usage
oyster mushroom, Pleurotus (genus of fungi in the family Pleurotaceae)
Tectella (genus of fungi in the family Mycenaceae)
Phyllotopsis (genus of fungi in the family Tricholomataceae)
some species of fungi in the family Polyporaceae hlíva fialová (Panus conchatus)
some species of fungi in the family Polyporaceae hlíva chlupatá (Lentinus strigosus)
gumma, non-cancerous growth from the tertiary stage of syphilis
Where this word comes from
The word is known from Old Czech, when it referred to a kind of fungus, probably fungus of the genus Pleurotus as in modern Czech. It is related to Lower Sorbian gliwk (“resin”), Old East Slavic глива (gliva, “slime, clay”), Russian dialect гли́ва (glíva, “bergamot pear”), Ukrainian глива (hlyva, “oyster mushroom”) or Serbo-Croatian gljȉva (“mushroom”). Comes from Proto-Slavic *gliva, which was probably derived from *glivěti (“cover with slime”) and is related to Lithuanian glei̇̃vės (“slime”) or Latvian glīve (“algal bloom”).
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