amanita

IPA: ɑmɑnˈitʌ

Any of very many agaric mushrooms, of the genus Amanita, most of which are very poisonous.

Examples of "amanita" in Sentences

The Jew said, Maybe the word is ‘amanita,’ a poisonous mushroom.
I wanted to believe it was a love potion but … could that dried bit have been amanita?
Milk thistle has been used as an effective treatment for amanita mushroom poisoning, which kills its victim by destroying the liver.
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.
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.