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Meanings of death cup in English

Portuguese
amanita phalloides
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Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills.

        amanita phalloides
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        Examples for "death cap"
        Examples for "death cap"
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        He then yielded himself to the executioner, who placed the death cap over his face.
        Sketches of the Covenanters
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        The death cap is extremely toxic and responsible for 90 per cent of all mushroom poisoning deaths.
        News.com.au
        3
        Look carefully and you may find a few hallucinogenic 'shrooms, and poisonous death cap and destroying angel mushrooms.
        Wired
        4
        The death cap is a large mushroom, with a cap ranging from light olive green to greenish yellow in colour.
        News.com.au
        5
        Amatoxin (ingested) Derived from the death cap family of mushrooms, amatoxin destroys your liver and kidneys over several days.
        Wired
        1
        They were afraid of her; it would be like dancing with the death angel.
        Judith of the Plains
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        Perhaps this victim was asleep when the death angel came.
        A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
        3
        That mysterious shadow thrown by the wings of the approaching death angel settled on his face.
        The Kentucky Ranger
        4
        The wing of the death angel touches him.
        "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
        5
        The death angel is generally met with more calmness by the dying than by surviving friends.
        Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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        The Unknown seemed to tower above him like a destroying angel.
        The Bat
        2
        The sight maddened him, and like a destroying angel he was among them.
        The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
        3
        Mrs. Knight rushed into her husband's presence like a destroying angel.
        The Auction Block
        4
        He is a destroying angel in moving through the still watches of the night.
        The Night-Born
        5
        The destroying angel has overtaken the sinner in his sins.
        The World's Great Sermons, Volume 03: Massillon to Mason
        1
        It has been described an Amanita phalloides poisoning in a female child of 2 years old with positive outcome.
        Pubmed
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