FLY AGARIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fly agaric mean? 

• FLY AGARIC (noun)
  The noun FLY AGARIC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FLY AGARIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLY AGARIC (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 ("fly agaric" is a kind of...):

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

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

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