Amanita
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- noun
- /əˈmænɪtə/
- Specialized
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Amanita
- Also, instead of "the pale amanita," it's the pale "and the leader," which?
- Amanita poisoning
- amanita muscaria
Examples
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Now, about "the pale amanita" vs. "the pale and the leader"... yeah, meaning-wise, there's just no way I can think of to make that fly.
Blog text (12) -
The pale amanita and eyes look blue.
Blog text (12) -
Around here, a pink berry is likely poisonous, like the delicious nightshade and amanita mentioned earlier.
Blog text (25) -
All we seem to find growing here on our farm are amanitas, false chanterelles, and giant king boletes that have been half eaten by the chickens.
Blog text (6) -
Luckily, he ate the whole medicine cabinet, including a stash of LSD, peyote, psilocybin, amanita, benzendrine, valium, and aspirin.
Fiction book (1998) -
More people die from eating amanitas than from any other wild mushroom.
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This nutrient first attracted my attention when I read about amanita poisoning.
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Young poisonous North American amanitas often look like an edible version of a wild mushroom.
Compounds
- Specialized
A mushroom with a bright orange cap that people eat in southern Europe
- Specialized
A poisonous mushroom with a yellowish cap and white gills that grows in Europe
- Specialized
A very poisonous pale mushroom with white gills and a cup-shaped base that can cause deadly liver damage
- Specialized
A yellowish edible mushroom that turns red when touched, called the blusher
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amanita was named after the Amanus mountains in ancient Turkey, where these mushrooms were first noted. So Amanita is the name for a group of mushrooms found in many places, and many of them are poisonous.