What does "agaric" mean?

Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.

What is a synonym for "agaric"?

Common synonyms include: fomes igniarius.

Agaric

//ˈæɡəɹɪk// noun

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Definitions

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