death cap
a deadly poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita, especially A. phalloides, with a distinctive membranous cup around the base of the stalk. Death caps resemble a number of edible mushrooms and are responsible for more deaths than any other species of mushroom.
Origin of death cap
1- Also called death cup [deth-kuhp] /ˈdɛθ ˌkʌp/ .
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How to use death cap in a sentence
Nor is the presence of the so-called "death cup" a sure sign that the fungus is poisonous, for the Amanita cæsarea has this cup.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. | George Francis AtkinsonIt is the active principle of the most deadly of all mushrooms, the Amanita phalloides, or death-cup fungus.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. | George Francis AtkinsonTheir "death cup" was mainly composed of the juice or extract of a species of hemlock, called by them cicuta.
Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries | C. J. S. ThompsonThe deadly Amanita or death-cup (A. phalloides) is probably responsible for the majority of cases of mushroom poisoning.
Food Poisoning | Edwin Oakes JordanIf you ate a death cup you died, and nothing could save you.
The Prairie Wife | Arthur Stringer
British Dictionary definitions for death cap
a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva: See also amanita
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