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destroying angel

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de·stroy·ing angel (d-stroing)
n.
Any of several poisonous mushrooms of the genus Amanita.
destroying angel
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
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Noun1.destroying angeldestroying angel - fungus similar to Amanita phalloides
Amanita verna
agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside
Amanita, genus Amanita - genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions
2.destroying angeldestroying angel - extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
Amanita phalloides, death angel, death cap, death cup
agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside
Amanita, genus Amanita - genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions


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He is a destroying angel in moving through the still watches of the night.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
But it was strange to hear the milkman in the early morning, and the postman knocking his way along the street an hour later, and to be passed over by one destroying angel after another.
A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context
Her pale face became paler; the circles under her eyes deepened, as they did when tears half-gather without falling; and the mild loving eyes took an expression of appalled pity, as if she had suddenly discerned a destroying angel hovering over the heads of the people.
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