| NOUN | plant | death cup, death cap, death angel, destroying angel, Amanita phalloides | extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base |
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| Meaning | Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills. | |
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| Synonyms | death cap, death angel, destroying angel, Amanita phalloides | |
| Member of | Amanita, genus Amanita | genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions |
| Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
| Catalan | Amanita phalloides | |
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