AMANITA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amanita mean? 

• AMANITA (noun)
  The noun AMANITA has 1 sense:

1. genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

  Familiarity information: AMANITA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMANITA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amanita; genus Amanita

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

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Amanita"):

Amanita caesarea; Caesar's agaric; royal agaric (widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric)

Amanita mappa; false deathcap (agaric often confused with the death cup)

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

Amanita phalloides; death angel; death cap; death cup; destroying angel (extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills)

Amanita rubescens; blusher; blushing mushroom (yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched)

Amanita verna; destroying angel (fungus similar to Amanita phalloides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Amanita"):

slime mushroom (a mushroom of the genus Amanita)

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

Agaricaceae; family Agaricaceae (large family including many familiar mushrooms)

 Context examples 

For instance, the Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) is a highly desirable edible wild mushroom in the Pacific coastal United States.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

Antimuscarinic drugs are used as antiarrhythmic, antiparkinson, antiasthmatic, and antispasmodic agents, as well as antidote of the natural mushroom alkaloid muscarine (Amanita muscaria) or to prevent parasympathetic stimulation at neuroeffector junctions.

(Antimuscarinic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Amanita phalloides.

(Death cap, NCI Dictionary)