Color Names

Tawny Mushroom

Forest floor fungus, caps dried to a dusty, earthy brown.

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Tawny Mushroom is a warm grey, close to mauve.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

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Tawny Mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or another food source. A toadstool generally refers to a poisonous mushroom.

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tawny

Adjective

  1. Of a light brown to brownish orange colour; orangey brown tinged with gold.

Verb

  1. To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
  2. To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
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mushroom

Noun

  1. Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
  2. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

Adjective

  1. Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
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