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Meadow mushroom

noun

Common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce. Synonyms: Agaricus campestris, field mushroom.

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... up. That prompted me to ask the girl why she never ate them. I could see a barricaded look come into her eyes but she merely shrugged and said that sometimes they were poison and killed people. I told her that this was absurd and that any one with ordinary intelligence soon got to know a meadow mushroom when he saw one. But sometimes, Olga insisted, they were death cups. If you ate a death cup you died, and nothing could save you. I tried to convince her that this was just a peasant superstition, but she announced that she had seen death cups, many ...

— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer

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Words linked to "Meadow mushroom" : Agaricus campestris, agaric, genus Agaricus, Agaricus