agaric
any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including several common edible mushrooms.
Origin of agaric
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How to use agaric in a sentence
And because your head is crimson red like the agarics I used to find in the woods in autumn.
Birds and Man | W. H. HudsonIn that forest delicious, reddish agarics grow in endless profusion, and elks still live in its deepest recesses.
The Darling and Other Stories | Anton ChekhovIn the Agarics, for instance, the forms seem to be as permanent and as distinct as in the flowering plants.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt CookeThey are both neat, white agarics, with a mealy odour, growing respectively in woods and open glades.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt CookeThe milky agarics, belonging to the genus Lactarius, are distinguished by the milky juice which is exuded when they are wounded.
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for agaric
/ (ˈæɡərɪk, əˈɡærɪk) /
any saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus of the family Agaricaceae, having gills on the underside of the cap. The group includes the edible mushrooms and poisonous forms such as the fly agaric
the dried spore-producing bodies of certain fungi, esp Polyphorus officinalis (or Boletus laricis), formerly used in medicine
Origin of agaric
1Derived forms of agaric
- agaricaceous (əˌɡærɪˈkeɪʃəs), adjective
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