amanita

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  1. noun Any of various mushrooms in the genus Amanita, many of which are extremely poisonous.

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  • They led him to believe that a fertility cult based on using the sacred mushroom, amanita muscaria, as a gateway to divine understanding, was at the root of many religions, including Christianity. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • Venus, holding the hallucinogenic amanita mushroom; —  SLAMXHYPE
  • The man had picked poisonous amanita ocreata mushrooms, which are common in the Santa Barbara area, at the Douglas Family Preserve above Arroyo Burro Beach. —  KSBW.com - Local News
  • "The man had picked poisonous amanita ocreata mushrooms, which are common in the Santa Barbara area, at the Douglas Family Preserve above Arroyo Burro Beach," reported the Associated Press. —  LAist
  • Crippa had picked poisonous amanita ocreata mushrooms, which are common in the Santa Barbara area, at the Douglas Family Preserve above Arroyo Burro Beach, authorities said.
 

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  1. New Latin Amānīta, genus name, from Greek amānītai, a fungus.
 

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