Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills.
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Examples for "death cap "
Examples for "death cap "
1 He then yielded himself to the executioner, who placed the death cap over his face.
2 The death cap is extremely toxic and responsible for 90 per cent of all mushroom poisoning deaths.
3 Look carefully and you may find a few hallucinogenic 'shrooms, and poisonous death cap and destroying angel mushrooms.
4 The death cap is a large mushroom, with a cap ranging from light olive green to greenish yellow in colour.
5 Amatoxin (ingested) Derived from the death cap family of mushrooms, amatoxin destroys your liver and kidneys over several days.
1 They were afraid of her; it would be like dancing with the death angel .
2 Perhaps this victim was asleep when the death angel came.
3 That mysterious shadow thrown by the wings of the approaching death angel settled on his face.
4 The wing of the death angel touches him.
5 The death angel is generally met with more calmness by the dying than by surviving friends.
1 The Unknown seemed to tower above him like a destroying angel .
2 The sight maddened him, and like a destroying angel he was among them.
3 Mrs. Knight rushed into her husband's presence like a destroying angel .
4 He is a destroying angel in moving through the still watches of the night.
5 The destroying angel has overtaken the sinner in his sins.
1 It has been described an Amanita phalloides poisoning in a female child of 2 years old with positive outcome.
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