# champignon
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ʃæmˈpɪnjən/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /t͡ʃæmˈpɪnjən/

### Noun

champignon (plural champignons)
* Agaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking.
** 2007 January 31, C. J. Chivers, “A Soviet Agricultural Success: Vast Greenhouse Complex”, in New York Times‎:Moscow’s food stores, formerly famed for bare shelves and long lines, are now kept stocked with fresh champignons and greens […] .
* (obsolete) Any mushroom.
** 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]

#### Synonyms

* (Agaricus bisporus): button mushroom, cremini, crimini, cultivated mushroom, portobello mushroom, table mushroom

#### Derived terms

* fairy ring champignon

#### See also

* Agaricus bisporus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɕɑmpʰinˈjʌŋ]

### Noun

champignon
* champignon

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French champignon, from Middle French champignon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌʃɑmpi(n)ˈjɔn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cham‧pig‧non
* Rhymes: -ɔn

### Noun

champignon m (plural champignons, diminutive champignonnetje n)
* a champignon, a button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus

#### Derived terms

* champignonsaus
* champignonsoep
* plompe champignon (“coastal mushroom, Agaricus litoralis”)
* reuzenchampignon (“Agaricus augustus”)
* straatchampignon (“banded agaric, Agaricus bitorquis”)
* toverchampignon (“Allopsalliota geesterani”)

### Further reading

* champignon on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Alternative forms

* champi (clipping)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *campāniolus (“grows in the field”), from Late Latin campāneus (“relating to fields”), from Latin campānia (“level country”). The “accelerator” sense comes from the fact that accelerator pedals were initially mushroom-shaped.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)
* mushroom
    des champignons hallucinogènes ― hallucinogenic mushroom, magic mushroom
* fungus in general
    Synonym: mycète
    Hyponyms: ascomycète, basidiomycète
* fungal infection
    avoir des champignons ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (informal) accelerator pedal
    Synonym: accélérateur
    appuyer sur le champignon ― to step on it, to floor it, to put the pedal to the metal, to put one's foot down, to step on the gas
    le pied sur le champignon ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    champignon au plancher ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Derived terms

* appuyer sur le champignon
* champignon chinois
* champignon de Paris
* champignonner
* champignonneux
* champignonnière
* champignonniste
* pousser comme des champignons

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: xampinyó
* → Crimean Tatar: şampinyon
* → Danish: champignon
* → Dutch: champignon
* → English: champignon
* → Galician: champiñón
* → German: Champignon
* → Italian: champignon
* → Luxembourgish: Champignon
* → Portuguese: champignon
* → Serbo-Croatian: šampìnjōn, шампѝњо̄н
* → Spanish: champiñón

#### See also

* fongique
* fongus
* moisissure
* mycélium

### References

* ↑ “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Further reading

* “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* “champignon” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “champignon” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

### Noun

champignon m (invariable)
* (mycology) champignon, button mushroom, crimini (Agaricus bisporus)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From French champignon.

### Noun

champignon
* alternative form of sjampinjong

### References

* “champignon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* champinhom, champinhão (rare)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /t͡ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

### Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)
* champignon (Agaricus bisporus, a small, edible mushroom)