DEATH CAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death cap mean? 

• DEATH CAP (noun)
  The noun DEATH CAP 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: DEATH CAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH CAP (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

Also called death cap.

(Amanita phalloides, NCI Dictionary)