AGARIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agaric mean? 

• AGARIC (noun)
  The noun AGARIC has 2 senses:

1. fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses

2. a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

  Familiarity information: AGARIC used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGARIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

agaric; Fomes igniarius

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

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

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

Fomes; genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

basidiomycete; basidiomycetous fungi (any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota)

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

Pluteus aurantiorugosus (an agaric with a brilliant scarlet cap and a slender stalk)

Clitocybe irina; Lepista irina; Tricholoma irinum (an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks)

Clitocybe robusta; Clytocybe alba (a large white agaric; edible but not palatable)

Clitocybe inornata (a fungus with a cap that is creamy grey when young and turns brown with age and a whitish stalk that stains yellow when handled)

Clitocybe dealbata (a small poisonous agaric; has a dry white cap with crowded gills and a short stalk)

Clitocybe clavipes (an agaric with a flat cap that is greyish or yellowish brown with pallid gills and a stalk that bulges toward the base)

Volvariella bombycina (a mushroom with a dry yellowish to white fibrillose cap)

Chinese mushroom; straw mushroom; Volvariella volvacea (small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially)

deer mushroom; Pluteus cervinus (a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods)

Pluteus magnus; sawdust mushroom (an edible agaric found in piles of hardwood sawdust; the caps are black and coarsely wrinkled)

Clitocybe subconnexa (an edible white agaric that fruits in dense clusters; the gills are narrow and crowded and the stalk is fleshy and unpolished)

Tricholoma aurantium (an orange tan agaric whose gills become brown by maturity; has a strong odor and taste)

Tricholoma vaccinum (an agaric with a cap that is densely covered with reddish fibrils and pale gills and stalk)

Tricholoma pardinum (a poisonous agaric having a pale cap with fine grey fibrils)

Tricholoma venenata (a poisonous white agaric)

man-on-a-horse; Tricholoma flavovirens (an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center)

Tricholoma sejunctum (an agaric with a cap that is coated with dark fibrils in the center and has yellowish margins)

Tricholoma pessundatum (a mildly poisonous agaric with a viscid reddish brown cap and white gills and stalk)

sandy mushroom; Tricholoma populinum (an edible agaric that fruits in great clusters (especially in sandy soil under cottonwood trees))

blewits; Clitocybe nuda (edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap)

Cortinarius subfoetidus (a fungus with a sticky lavender cap and stalk that whitish above and covered with a silky lavender sheath)

Armillariella mellea; honey fungus; honey mushroom (a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw)

Armillaria zelleri (a large fungus with viscid cap that dries and turns brown with age; gills are off-white)

Armillaria ponderosa; white matsutake (a large white mushroom that develops brown stains as it ages; gills are white; odor is spicy and aromatic; collected commercially for oriental cooking the Pacific Northwest)

Armillaria caligata; booted armillaria (fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk)

shoestring fungus (any of several fungi of the genus Armillaria that form brown stringy rhizomorphs and cause destructive rot of the roots of some trees such as apples or maples)

Gymnopilus ventricosus (a giant fungus of the Pacific Northwest; has a very thick stalk and the cortina leaves a ring high up on the stalk)

Gymnopilus validipes (a poisonous fungus with a dry cap and a cortina that does not leave much of a ring on the robust stalk)

Gymnopilus spectabilis (a fungus with a brownish orange fruiting body and a ring near the top of the stalk; the taste is bitter and the flesh contains psilocybin and psilocin)

Cortinarius violaceus (a fungus that is violet overall with a squamulose cap)

mushroom (mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.))

Cortinarius semisanguineus (a fungus with a dry brown cap and rusty red gills and a yellowish stalk)

Cortinarius mutabilis; purple-staining Cortinarius (a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface; close violet gills; all parts stain dark purple when bruised)

Cortinarius gentilis (a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk)

Cortinarius corrugatus (a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown)

Cortinarius atkinsonianus (an edible fungus with a slimy viscid cap that is initially yellow but turns olive and then tawny; flesh is lavender)

Cortinarius armillatus (a fungus with large tawny caps and pale cinnamon gills and a red band of veil around the stalk; usually found near birch trees)

waxycap (any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance)

Flammulina velutipes; winter mushroom (an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters)

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

Lactarius delicioso; milkcap (edible mushroom)

Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane; shaggymane mushroom (common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores)

Coprinus atramentarius; inky-cap mushroom; inky cap (having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured)

jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern; jack-o-lantern fungus; Omphalotus illudens (a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent)

Cantharellus cinnabarinus; cinnabar chanterelle (mushroom with a distinctive pink to vermillion fruiting body)

Cantharellus clavatus; pig's ears (an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound)

Cantharellus floccosus; floccose chanterelle (a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet)

Cantharellus cibarius; chantarelle; chanterelle (widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma)

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

lepiota (any fungus of the genus Lepiota)

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

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

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

Agaricus campestris; field mushroom; meadow mushroom (common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce)

Agaricus arvensis; horse mushroom (coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and a broad white cap)

toadstool (common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom))

mushroom (common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool))

oyster agaric; oyster fungus; oyster mushroom; Pleurotus ostreatus (edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood)

Lepiota procera; parasol mushroom (edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn)

Chlorophyllum molybdites (a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color; cap can reach a diameter of 30 cm; often forms 'fairy rings')

Entoloma aprile (an agaric with a dark brown conical cap; fruits in early spring)

Entoloma lividum; Entoloma sinuatum (a deadly poisonous agaric; a large cap that is first white (livid or lead-colored) and then turns yellowish or tan)

Stropharia rugoso-annulata (a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk; the cap is dark brown; the white gills turn dark purplish brown with age; edible and choice)

Stropharia hornemannii (a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring)

Stropharia ambigua (a gilled fungus with a long stalk and a yellow slimy cap from which fragments of the broken veil hang; gills are initially white but become dark brown as spores are released)

Pholiota squarrosoides (a pale buff fungus with tawny scales)

Pholiota squarrosa; scaly pholiota (a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age)

Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa (a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks)

nameko; Pholiota nameko; viscid mushroom (one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan)

Pholiota flavida (a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk)

Pholiota flammans (a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk)

Pholiota destruens (a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard)

golden pholiota; Pholiota aurea (a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast)

Pholiota astragalina (a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk)

olive-tree agaric; Pleurotus phosphoreus (red luminescent mushroom of Europe)

fairy-ring mushroom; Marasmius oreades (mushroom that grows in a fairy ring)

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

Agaricales; order Agaricales (typical gilled mushrooms belonging to the subdivision Basidiomycota)