death cap

death cap

An extremely poisonous type of mushroom (Amanita phalloides). Don't pick that mushroom—it's a death cap!
See also: cap, death
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • meet (one's) death
  • meet death
  • be put to death
  • put (one) to death
  • put somebody to death
  • like death warmed over
  • be bored to death
  • from the dead
  • brush with death
  • tired to death
References in periodicals archive
The Death Cap fungus is regarded as one of the most lethal plants known to science.
New livers for couple poisoned by mushrooms
DEATH CAP MUSHROOMGREENISH death caps look similar to edible varieties but are for 95% all MUSHROOM fatalities.
MUM KILLED BY POISON MUSHROOM IN HER SOUP; Death caps used for flavour
If only she knew that Ioan had taught him everything he needed to know about fungi, so that morning, he had no problem spotting a death cap poking through the snow, and knowing exactly what to do with it.
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She ate what are believed to be death cap fungi for lunch with Thai sausages with her niece Kannika Tuckey on Monday.
Poison mushrooms suspected to have killed woman, inquest hears
Under the $500,000 wrongful death cap, my vibrant 45-year-old stepmother died at the hands of her family practitioner.
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In 2008, one woman died and another was seriously ill after eating toxic death cap mushrooms on a trip to Ventnor Botanic Gardens on the Isle of Wight.
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One woman died yesterday and another is ill after possibly eating poisonous death cap mushrooms, police said.
Death cap mushrooms suspected after fatality; NATURE
MY comment that 90 per cent of all fatal poisonings by fungi are down to the Death Cap mushroom had you asking for more...
Did you know? KILLER MUSHROOM; gardening
No, we've gone for a more literal approach by stuffing this sarnie with a pound of lard, death cap mushroom topping and a flavoursome arsenic mayonnaise.
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While those who like mushrooms should avoid eating poisonous varieties like Death Cap, Panther Cap and Destroying Angel.
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Christine Hale, 57, suffered multiple organ failure thought to have been caused by the death cap toadstool.
KILLER MUSHROOM; Woman dies after she eats deadly fungus from garden
Gardeners' Question Time 1.The death cap is the most poisonous what?
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There is the death cap, he tells me, although thankfully, it hasn't been found in this wood yet.
Forage for fruits of the forest; RURAL LIVING An ancient woodland is littered with brackets and lawyers' wigs
THE world's deadliest mushroom is the Death Cap, which contains five different poisons that can cause diarrhoea and vomiting, closely followed by damage to the kidneys and liver.
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