See Also: champignon(dictionary)
Champignon Sauce(recipes)

cosmogony (iou) and champignon (iou)


cosmogony (iou)



cosmogony noun. L17.
[Greek kosmogonia creation of the world, formed as COSMOS noun1: see -GONY.]
A theory or account of the origin of the universe; the branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe. L17.
C. Sagan The Babylonian cosmogony enshrined in Genesis.
The creation of the universe. M18.
cosmo'gonic,
cosmo'gonical adjectives E19.
cosmogonist noun (a) a person who holds that the world had a beginning in time; (b) a person who studies cosmogony or propounds a cosmogony: L17.

champignon (iou)



champignon noun. Also champinion. L16.
[French (earlier champaignon), dim. of champagne: see CHAMPAIGN.]
A mushroom; a toadstool. Now spec. (a) the edible field mushroom Agaricus campestris; (b) an agaric, Marismius oreades, which often forms fairy-rings.