# agaric
## English
### Alternative forms

* agarick (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Latin agaricum, from Ancient Greek ἀγαρικόν (agarikón, “a tree fungus (Phellinus pomaceus”)), from the country of Agaria, in Sarmatia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæɡəɹɪk/, /əˈɡɑːɹɪk/, /əˈɡæɹɪk/
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### Noun

agaric (plural agarics)
* Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.
** 1765, William Kenrick, A Review of Doctor Johnson’s New Edition of Shakespeare‎, London: J. Payne, page 88:[…] 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.
** 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”, in Essays. Second Series‎, Boston: James Munroe, pages 24–25: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.
** 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,
** 1989, Ted Hughes, “Slump Sundays”, in Wolfwatching‎, London: Faber and Faber, page 4:[…] I came to / Under a rainy ridge, in a goblin clump / Of agaric.
* A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Laricifomes officinalis, formerly Fomitopsis officinalis, Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).
** 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions‎, London: Thomas Jones, Devotion 8, Meditation, page 179:Agarick to purge his flegme, lest he be too drowsie

#### Hyponyms

* deadly agaric (Amanita phalloides)
* fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
* ivory agaric (Hygrophorus eburneus)
* horsetail agaric (Coprinus comatus)
* maned agaric (Coprinus comatus)
* royal agaric (Amanita caesarea)

#### Derived terms

* agaric acid
* agaric gnat (Mycetophilidae spp.)
* agaricic
* agariciform
* agaricin
* agariclike
* agaric mineral
* agaricoid
* agaricology
* agarin
* Caesar's agaric
* euagaric

#### Translations
### See also

* Agaricia
* Agaricus
* agarwood

### Further reading

* agaric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Agaricales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Agaricales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Category:Fomitopsis officinalis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* Garica, Arciga, Garcia, Gracia

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ɡa.ʁik/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

agaric m (plural agarics)
* agaric
    Synonym: psalliote

### Further reading

* “agaric”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.