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agaric noun, bot any of various fungi that produce an umbrella-shaped spore-bearing structure with a central vertical stem supporting a circular cap, eg field mushroom (see under agaric), death cap.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c, meaning 'tree-fungus': from Latin agaricum.