Meaning & use
cepes
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“cepes” is a form of “cepe”.
Meaning
nouncountable
Large brown mushrooms with a thick stem and a nutty flavor, often dried or cooked in European dishes.
Grammar: Countable: one is a cepe, two are cepes; also spelled "cèpe" in French-influenced texts.
Patterns
- a dish of cepes
- dried cepes
- fresh cepes
The risotto was rich with butter and sliced cepes.
She bought dried cepes at the market and soaked them for the sauce.
In autumn, foragers hunt for cepes under the oak trees.
Word forms
| singular | cepe |
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Common combinations
- dried cepes
- Dried cepes give the soup a deep, earthy taste.
- fresh cepes
- Fresh cepes are best cooked simply with garlic and parsley.
- wild cepes
- Wild cepes can be hard to find, so they are expensive.
- a pound of cepes
- He ordered a pound of cepes for the restaurant.
Synonyms and how they differ
- porcini
- The usual American name for the same mushroom; use it in US contexts, while "cepes" sounds more British or French.
- boletus
- The scientific genus name; it fits in biology writing but not on a menu.
Word family
- cepe noun
- The singular form, one such mushroom.
Commonly confused: cepes or crepes?
cepes vs crepes
"Crepes" are thin pancakes; "cepes" are mushrooms. The spelling differs by one letter, so check carefully.
Practice
Which sentence uses the word correctly?
Choose one answer.
"Cepes" are mushrooms, so adding them to a sauce fits. Option 0 confuses them with crepes, which are pancakes, and options 2 and 3 treat them as sweets or clothing, which is wrong.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cepes”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.