NOUN
- extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
How To Use death cap In A Sentence
- Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
- Heading south on Highway 45 just outside of Huntsville, the Death Capitol of Texas, one might see vultures circling the dark piney woods that surround the little town.
- The aptly named death cap has been spotted in record numbers as the wild mushroom collecting season gets under way. Times, Sunday Times
- Just two months ago, the Chronicle reported on three members of a Bay Area family — a grandmother and two preteen boys — that had been hospitalized after harvesting and eating amanita phalloida (aka “death cap”) mushrooms, a sister species to the kind that killed the Santa Barbara octogenarian. When Urban Gleaning Goes Wrong « Scavenging
- Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
- The aptly named death cap has been spotted in record numbers as the wild mushroom collecting season gets under way. Times, Sunday Times
- Death caps are not unique in appearance and can easily be mistaken for nonpoisonous species. Mushrooms
