AMANITA PHALLOIDES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amanita phalloides mean? 

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

1. extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMANITA PHALLOIDES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amanita phalloides; death angel; death cap; death cup; destroying angel

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

agaric (a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside)

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

Amanita; genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)

 Context examples 

Also called Amanita phalloides.

(Death cap, NCI Dictionary)