death cup

death cup

noun
1.
a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
2.
the part of this mushroom that persists around the base of the stalk as a membranous cup.

Origin:
1900–05
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Death cup is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
death cup

noun
extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills [syn: death cap
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