A name applied originally (as in French) to fungi, or mushrooms generally; in 18th cent. to edible mushrooms, esp. Agaricus campestris; but…

The miller (mushroom), Clitopilus prunulus, used as a culinary vegetable. See miller, n.1 9.

(a) the fairy ring mushroom, Marasmius oreades (now rare); (b) any of various inedible, poisonous, or hallucinogenic fungi (cf. magic mushroom n. at…

Agaricus muscarius = fly-bane, n. 1(c).

Botany. An agaric (toadstool), Psathyrella caput-medusae, with a pale cap bearing a pattern of brownish hairy scales.

A genus of agaric (family Tricholomataceae), members of which have an annulus on the stalk; (also armillaria) a fungus of this genus, esp. the…

A genus of white-spored agarics with the gills mostly decurrent.

The popular name of various plants: (a) = catchfly, n.; (b) the ploughman's spikenard (Inula conyza); (c) (see quot. 1863).

(a) the field mushroom, Agaricus campestris; (b) marsh pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris.

The St George's mushroom, Calocybe gambosa (family Tricholomataceae). Obsolete. rare.