fly agaric

fly agaric

n.

A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria) usually having a red or orange cap with white gills and patches.

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fly agaric

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a saprotrophic agaricaceous woodland fungus, Amanita muscaria, having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills: poisonous but rarely fatal See also amanita

[so named from its use as a poison on flypaper]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

fly agaric - poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills Amanita muscaria 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