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单词 agaric
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Definition of agaric in English:

agaric

noun ˈaɡ(ə)rɪkəˈɡɑːrɪk
  • A fungus with a fruiting body that resembles a mushroom, having a convex or flattened cap with gills on the underside.

    Order Agaricales, class Hymenomycetes, in particular the mushroom family Agaricaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The poorer individuals, none the less anxious to use the agaric, were often frustrated by the cost and limited supply of the plants.
    • It is, however, to the latter, to the lowly and ugly agarics, that nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools.
    • An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.
    • China tops the world in producing straw mushrooms, tuckahoe, lentinus adodes, agaric, white jelly fungus and hedgehog fungus, Liu added.
    • Mushroom-forming fungi are referred to as ‘agarics.’

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting various bracket fungi with medicinal or other uses): from Latin agaricum, from Greek agarikon 'tree fungus'.

 
 

Definition of agaric in US English:

agaric

noun
  • A fungus with a fruiting body that resembles the ordinary mushroom, having a convex or flattened cap with gills on the underside.

    Order Agaricales, class Basidiomycetes, in particular the mushroom family Agaricaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is, however, to the latter, to the lowly and ugly agarics, that nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools.
    • Mushroom-forming fungi are referred to as ‘agarics.’
    • China tops the world in producing straw mushrooms, tuckahoe, lentinus adodes, agaric, white jelly fungus and hedgehog fungus, Liu added.
    • The poorer individuals, none the less anxious to use the agaric, were often frustrated by the cost and limited supply of the plants.
    • An agaric, such as the common field mushroom, has gills in the form of fine, radiating ‘plates’.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting various bracket fungi with medicinal or other uses): from Latin agaricum, from Greek agarikon ‘tree fungus’.

 
 
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