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noun

Agaric n.

(Bot.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood. Note: The "female agaric" (Polyporus officinalis) was renowned as a cathartic; the "male agaric" (Polyporus igniarius) is used for preparing touchwood, called punk or German tinder.

Agaric mineral, a light, chalky deposit of carbonate of lime, sometimes called rock milk, formed in caverns or fissures of limestone.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agaric" Quotes from Famous Books

... crime, it was imagined either that the fire would not kindle, or that it would be devoid of its usual virtue. So soon as any sparks were emitted by means of the violent friction, they applied a species of agaric which grows on old birch-trees, and is very combustible. This fire had the appearance of being immediately derived from heaven, and manifold were the virtues ascribed to it. They esteemed it a preservative against witchcraft, and a sovereign remedy against malignant diseases, both in ...

— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... worms do not eat them, and, marvellous to say, no insect alights on them; the young ladies hunted for the slender pine-lover, which the song calls the colonel of the mushrooms.52 All were eager for the orange-agaric; this, though of more modest stature and less famous in song, is still the most delicious, whether fresh or salted, whether in autumn or in winter. But the Seneschal gathered ...

— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

... hand to his head. He could hardly credit that anybody could have eaten those mushrooms—the devil's toadstool and the fly agaric—and remain alive and well. There was something wrong about it. Or there had been some mistake. But he had made no mistake—no, most certainly not, he ...

— Absolution • Clara Viebig