AMANITA • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Amanita

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

Amanita

noun

Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions. Synonym: genus Amanita.

See images of 'Amanita'

Etymology of 'Amanita'

Related searches:

Share |

"Amanita" Quotes from Famous Books

... convulsions. There was prussic acid poisoning from almonds and digitalin poisoning from purple foxglove. There was the awesome efficiency of wolfsbane with its deadly store of aconite. There were the fungi such as the amanita toadstools and fly agaric, not to mention the purely Omegan vegetable poisons like redcup, flowering ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... Amanita muscaria Linn. Poisonous.—This plant in some places is popularly known as the fly agaric, since infusions of it are used as a fly poison. It occurs during the summer and early autumn. It grows along roadsides near trees, or in ...

— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson

Words linked to "Amanita" : royal agaric, blushing mushroom, death angel, Agaricaceae, family Agaricaceae, false deathcap, blusher, Caesar's agaric, fly agaric, slime mushroom, Amanita caesarea, Amanita rubescens, death cup, fungus genus, destroying angel, Amanita verna, death cap, Amanita phalloides