cheerio

cheerio
 n.β€” Β«At the edge of the burn there was a jumble of downed trees, brambles, and underbrush. Using an ax, Doug hacked his way through the more difficult sections. In the easier spots, the only morels seemed to be “cheerios”β€”in picker’s parlance, the hollow stems that indicate a fellow forager had been there first.Β» β€”β€œWhat a rush” by Lawrence Millman in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada Boston Globe May 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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