Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
fly agaric Function:
noun : a poisonous mushroom of the genus
Amanita (
A. muscaria) that has a variably colored but typically bright-red pileuswith a warty white scurf on the surface that with the related death cap is responsible for most cases of severe mushroom poisoning, that has been used as a source of poison for flypaper, and that isextensively used chiefly in northeastern Asia as an intoxicant especially for the hallucinatory effects that it produces called also
fly amanita, fly mushroom
