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Agaric meaning
Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath. | A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).
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Example sentences (9)
One of the most iconic and distinctive of fungi, fly agaric, with its red cap and white spots, is renowned for its toxicity and hallucinogenic properties.
Amanita caesarea can be distinguished by its entirely orange to red cap which lacks the numerous white warty spots of the fly agaric.
And so the image of the fly agaric became very common in Victorian literature, especially associated with faeries and little people sitting on mushrooms and toadstools.
Fly agaric fruiting bodies emerge from the soil looking like white eggs.
Letcher, p 122. The mushroom had been identified as the fly agaric by this time.
Secotioid genus Nivatogastrium corresponds to agaric genus Pholiota and provides a vivid example of the phenomenon.
The English mycologist John Ramsbottom reported that Amanita muscaria was used for getting rid of bugs in England and Sweden, and bug agaric was an old alternate name for the species.
The Lithuanian festivities are the only report that Wasson received of ingestion of fly agaric for religious use in Eastern Europe.
Transcription: I then moved on to the appearance of the fly agaric mushroom in our own culture.