AMANITA MUSCARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amanita muscaria mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMANITA MUSCARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amanita muscaria; fly agaric

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)

 Context examples 

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)