amanita
any agaricaceous fungus of the genus Amanita, comprised chiefly of poisonous species.
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How to use amanita in a sentence
An amanita muscaria key chain is rolling around under the driver’s seat.
Many spots in the copse are brilliant with large groups of the scarlet-capped Fly Agaric (amanita muscaria).
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllHe chose the lemon-yellow amanita, which has as bad a reputation as the mottled variety, and ate it at supper.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreIn short, whether it be to us a delicious dish or a deadly poison, no amanita is accepted by the grubs.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri FabreI have sometimes employed the mottled amanita, so ill famed in the books, without disastrous result.
The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre
Ford claims to have obtained proof that a glucoside contained in the poisonous mushroom amanita phalloides can act as an antigen.
The Organism as a Whole | Jacques Loeb
British Dictionary definitions for amanita
/ (ˌæməˈnaɪtə) /
any of various saprotrophic agaricaceous fungi constituting the genus Amanita, having white gills and a broken membranous ring (volva) around the stalk. The genus includes several highly poisonous species, such as death cap, destroying angel, and fly agaric
Origin of amanita
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