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agaric
- /ˈæɡəɹɪk/
- /əˈɡɑːɹɪk/
- /əˈɡæɹɪk/
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From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.
noun agarics · agarick
- Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath. […] these [commentators] were slight excrescences, mushrooms, champignons, that perished as the smoke of the dunghil evaporated, which reared them. A modern editor of Shakespeare is, on the contrary, a fungus attached to an oak; a male agaric of the most astringent kind, that, while it disfigures it
- A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis). Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie
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noun any fungus having a cap with gills
| Español | agárico |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 原茸 haratake |
| Português | agárico |
| Ελληνικά | αγαρικό agarikó |
| العربية | غَارِيقُون ḡārīqūn |
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title = {agaric},
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