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Meanings of fly agaric in English
Portuguese
amanita muscaria 
Poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills.
A poisonous and psychoactive fungus of the genus Amanita, whose cap is red with white spots.
Usage of fly agaric in English
1
I had read about fly agaric, the mushroom that the Widow Fortune had hunted in Soakes's Lonesome.
2
For example: The exchange rate among Siberia's Finno-Ugrian tribes for one fly agaric mushroom is three or four reindeer.
3
The prince stood looking pensively at a big fly agaric at his feet, which he had crushed with his stick.
4
Wolfsbane and fly agaric were excellent, of course; deadly nightshade could not be discounted, and the amanita toadstool had its own macabre charm.
5
The word is also associated with the Fly Agaric Mushroom.
6
"Muscarin" is the leading active principle of the Fly Agaric, in conjunction with agaricin, mycose, and mannite.
7
"Those," pointing to the mushrooms, "are fly agaric." They were called "fly," she explained, because they were once used to kill flies and other insects.