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- noun Plural form of
amanita .
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Examples
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On the hour from a large centrally-placed loudspeaker a recorded lecture on the deadly, poisonous … (Soundbite of piano chords) Mr. CAGE: ... amanitas was delivered.
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Behind him, the shapes of three giant amanitas crooked their crowns into the mist.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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Behind him, the shapes of three giant amanitas crooked their crowns into the mist.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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The common mushroom, the _Agaricus_, the amanitas, and other central stemmed species grow usually in an upright fashion; that is, the stem is erect.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Great caution should be used in distinguishing it from the fly agaric and from other amanitas.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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There is much more danger in mistaking it for the white amanitas, _A. phalloides_, _A. verna_, or _A. virosa_, since the gills of these deadly plants are white, and they do sometimes grow in lawns and other grassy places where the smooth lepiota and the common mushroom grow.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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For this reason one should study the descriptions and illustrations of these amanitas given on preceding pages, and especially should the suggestions given there about care in collecting plants be followed, until one is so certainly familiar with the characters that the plants would be known "on sight."
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In point of fact, when eaten raw, the amanitas have no particular flavor.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Is a certain degree of consistency required, to suit the grubs: something midway between the softness of the amanitas and the firmness of the milk mushrooms?
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Can I make a smoke blend using sweet flag, ahuasca, and amanitas?
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