agaric en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /əˈɡæɹɪk/
- /əˈɡɑːɹɪk/
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- /ˈæɡəɹɪk/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-der. Ancient Greek Ἁγαρία (Hagaría) Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón)der. Latin agaricumlbor. English agaric From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.
Meanings
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Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.
1872, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, “Gareth and Lynette” in Gareth and Lynette, Etc. London: Strahan & Co., p. 47, She thereat, as one / That smells a foul-flesh’d agaric in the holt, / And deems it carrion of some woodland thing, / Or shrew, or weasel, nipt her slender nose / With petulant thumb and finger,
[…] these [commentators] were slight excrescences, mushrooms, champignons, that perished as the smoke of the dunghil evaporated, which reared them. A modern editor of Shakespeare is, on the contrary, a fungus attached to an oak; a male agaric of the most astringent kind, that, while it disfigures its form, may last for ages to disgrace the parent of its being.
1765, William Kenrick, A Review of Doctor Johnson’s New Edition of Shakespeare, London: J. Payne, page 88:[…] I came to / Under a rainy ridge, in a goblin clump / Of agaric.
1989, Ted Hughes, “Slump Sundays”, in Wolfwatching, London: Faber and Faber, page 4:Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus: so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, any one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”, in Essays. Second Series, Boston: James Munroe, pages 24–25:
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A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).
Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie
1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, London: Thomas Jones, Devotion 8, Meditation, page 179:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| agarick | alternative | lexicographic | |
| agarics | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Caesar's agaric · agaricin · agaricology · agaric mineral · agaricoid · agarin · agariclike · euagaric · agaric gnat · larch agaric · agaric acid · fairy ring agaric · agariciform · agaricic
Hyponyms
royal agaric · fly agaric · maned agaric · deadly agaric · ivory agaric · horsetail agaric
Relateds
Agaricia · Agaricus · agarwood
Translations (16)
ga agairg (any fungus having a cap with gills) · nb skivesopp (any fungus having a cap with gills) · eo agariko (any fungus having a cap with gills) · fi helttasieni (any fungus having a cap with gills) · pl pieczarka (any fungus having a cap with gills) · hu vörösfenyő-kérgestapló (any fungus having a cap with gills) · hu csiperkegomba (any fungus having a cap with gills) · ja 原茸 (any fungus having a cap with gills) · es agárico (any fungus having a cap with gills) · sga agairc (any fungus having a cap with gills) · pt agárico (any fungus having a cap with gills) · el αγαρικό (any fungus having a cap with gills) · pl grzyb blaszkowy (any fungus having a cap with gills) · cs lupenatá houba (any fungus having a cap with gills) · hu csiperke (any fungus having a cap with gills) · hu lemezes gomba (any fungus having a cap with gills)