destroying angel

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destroying angel

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The mushrooms perhaps from their white angel-like appearance.

noun destroying angels

Any of a group of four deadly toxic mushrooms in the Amanita genus: Amanita bisporigera, Amanita ocreata, Amanita verna, and Amanita virosa. The doctors ran some tests and confirmed I'd eaten the destroying angel. I was the third person that year to be admitted after eating one. The two before me hadn't survived.
Similar: angel of death, death angel
In the Hebrew Bible, an entity sent out by God on several occasions to punish opponents. Again, I wonder with a sudden fear whether it is likely that our good old clergyman can be wrong, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone right, and that all the angels in Heaven can be destroying angels.

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noun deadly mushroom

Русский	мухомо́р воню́чий muxomór vonjúčij, бе́лая пога́нка bélaja pogánka

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@misc{destroying_angel_2026,
  title = {destroying angel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/destroying%20angel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}