boletic

English

Etymology

From bolete +‎ -ic.

Adjective

boletic (not comparable)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• boletate
• boletic acid