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agaric

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈæɡəɹɪk/Part of speech nounSorted aacgirStarts with AEnds with C0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

Word origin

From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.

Used in a sentence

  • Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus: so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
  • […] I came to / Under a rainy ridge, in a goblin clump / Of agaric.
  • Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie

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