Jack-o-lantern

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of jack-o'-lantern. alt-of, alternative

    "We helped the children carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns."

  2. 2
    a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent wordnet

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jack-a-lanternjack-o-lantern fungusomphalotus illudens

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