| 单词 | destroying angel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdestroying angel destroying angel n. a highly poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita, spec. A. virosa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > poisonous fungi toad-cheese14.. toadstool1607 fairy mushroom1884 destroying angel1887 1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi x. 164 Agaricus vernus; Amanita verna; The Destroying Angel... Angelically beautiful and demoniacally poisonous. 1945 J. Ramsbottom Poisonous Fungi 19 Amanita virosus [sic], destroying angel. Amanita verna and Amanita virosa are both closely allied to Amanita phalloides and are often regarded as varieties or sub-species. 1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 171 One variety quite similar to the meadow mushroom but less common and often found in the woods is the Destroying Angel. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 289/2 A[manita] verna and A. virosa, the destroying angels, are the deadliest of all mushrooms. They develop a large white fruiting body and are found in forests during wet periods in summer and autumn. 1990 Times 13 Oct. 18/3 In Britain we have the Death Cap and the Destroying Angel, the world's two deadliest fungi. destroying angel That destroys, destructive. destroying angel U.S. = Danite n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > angels with specific tasks angel of death1565 chorister1584 recording angel1762 death angel1796 destroying angel1814 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person > Danite Danite1838 destroying angel1838 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxi. 8 The destroyenge staff of my sonne, shal bringe downe all wodde. 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 21 Novelty and Singleness were as destroying..to Art, as..Barbarism. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 92 To oppose the inroad of this destroying host. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv Replete with power he is, and terrible, Like some destroying Angel! 1838 Peoria (Illinois) Reg. 24 Nov. 1/5 They had assembled them into three different societies, called Danites, Gideonites, and the destroying Angels. 1857 Congress. Globe 24 Feb. App. 289/3 They suppose that there is a secret society existing there, called Danites, Shanpips, or Destroying Angels. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xii. 106 Half an hour..later we changed horses, and took supper with a Mormon ‘Destroying Angel’. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. xci. 437 Soul-and-body-destroying debauchery. 1943 B. A. De Voto Year of Decision 83 So in 1842 O. P. Rockwell, one of the Sons of Dan (the ‘Destroying Angels’ of ten-cent fiction), crept up to a window in Boggs's house and shot him. < as lemmas |
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