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DEATH CAP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
Synonyms:
Amanita phalloides; death angel; death cap; death cup; destroying angel
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("death cap" is a kind of...):
agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)
Holonyms ("death cap" 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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