death cup

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death′ cup`

1. a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.

2. the cuplike volva at the base of this mushroom.

[1900–05]

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Noun

1.

death cup - extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside Amanita, genus Amanita - genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

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