AMANITA MUSCARIA

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Meaning:

Poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills

Synonyms:

Amanita muscaria; fly agaric

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Amanita muscaria" is a kind of...):

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

Holonyms ("Amanita muscaria" is a member of...):

Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)

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