fly agaric

Noun

Meaning

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

Alternative names

fly-agaric

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Examples

Amanita caesarea can be distinguished by its entirely orange to red cap which lacks the numerous white warty spots of the fly agaric. Source: Internet

And so the image of the fly agaric became very common in Victorian literature, especially associated with faeries and little people sitting on mushrooms and toadstools. Source: Internet

Letcher, p 122. The mushroom had been identified as the fly agaric by this time. Source: Internet

The Lithuanian festivities are the only report that Wasson received of ingestion of fly agaric for religious use in Eastern Europe. Source: Internet

Transcription: I then moved on to the appearance of the fly agaric mushroom in our own culture. Source: Internet

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