Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tribe of brachycerous dipterous insects, containing those flies whose proboscis is usually terminated by a fleshy lobe, as in the house-fly: now equivalent to Muscidæ in the widest sense.

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Examples

  • PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: The mushroom in this video looks like Amanita muscaria, which are very poisonous!

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The libation that promised enlightenment and divine knowledge, some believe, may have come from the fly Amanita mushroom (Amanita muscaria), which also happens to be the natural diet of reindeers (and consequently can be derived from reindeer urine), is herded by ancient nomadic tribes of central Asia, and also the source of myths and indirect allusions in tales such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    Kiša Lala: ANIMALISTIC ART: Carsten Höller's Reindeers on Mushrooms Kiša Lala 2010

  • The libation that promised enlightenment and divine knowledge, some believe, may have come from the fly Amanita mushroom (Amanita muscaria), which also happens to be the natural diet of reindeers (and consequently can be derived from reindeer urine), is herded by ancient nomadic tribes of central Asia, and also the source of myths and indirect allusions in tales such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    Kiša Lala: ANIMALISTIC ART: Carsten Höller's Reindeers on Mushrooms Kiša Lala 2010

  • Before they perform the sacrifice, the Khanty perform a divination ceremony using fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria).

    Learn something every day 2007

  • What about psychedelic mushrooms, Amanita muscaria and Amanita pantherina fungus (all natural hallucinogens)?

    Sound Politics: Health Effects Of Pot Get Short Shrift: Bummer, Man 2007

  • What about psychedelic mushrooms, Amanita muscaria and Amanita pantherina fungus (all natural hallucinogens)?

    Sound Politics: Health Effects Of Pot Get Short Shrift: Bummer, Man 2007

  • Okay, sometime last summer I set the digital camera to "closeup" mode for this really handsome Aminita muscaria in the woods.

    Heat death of the universe jhetley 2008

  • Jewel-weed blooming, some dinner-plate-sized mushrooms that looked like Aminita muscaria from bicycle-botany range, and the poison ivy seems to love this weather.

    Dewpoints backwards-R us jhetley 2008

  • Well, since Jesus is code for the psychedelic mushroom Amanita muscaria, you are all wrong and slaves to boot!

    "The Bible Is Not To Be Questioned" James F. McGrath 2008

  • Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria), western Vermont, United States.

    Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests 2007

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