Agaric
/ˈæɡəɹɪk/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.
"[…] these [commentators] were slight excrescences, mushrooms, champignons, that perished as the smoke of the dunghil evaporated, which reared them. A modern editor of Shakespeare is, on the contrary, a fungus attached to an oak; a male agaric of the most astringent kind, that, while it disfigures its form, may last for ages to disgrace the parent of its being."
- 2 a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside wordnet
- 3 A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).
"Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie"
- 4 fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses wordnet
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More examples"Everyone knows what a fly agaric mushroom looks like."
Etymology
From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.