Morel vs Mores - What's the difference?
morel | mores |
Any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel.
(mushrooms) Any of several fungi in the genus Morchella , the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.
A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, page 99:
* 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 165:
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As nouns the difference between morel and mores
is that morel is any of several edible mushrooms, especially the common morel or yellow morel while mores is a set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.As a verb mores is
third-person singular of more.morel
English
(wikipedia morel) (Morchella)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* black morel, * black morel, * black morel, * black morel, * white morel, * yellow morel,See also
* false morel * great morel * petty morelmores
English
(wikipedia mores)Alternative forms
* moeursEtymology 1
From the (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past?—?a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores , political and religious restrictions.
- It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos'' with its plural ''mores'', and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the ''mores ?—?the rules of behaviour?—?of a society.