agaric

• agarick (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡəɹɪk/, /əˈɡɑːɹɪk/, /əˈɡæɹɪk/

agaric (plural agarics)

1. 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.

2. 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

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

• Agaricia
• Agaricus
• agarwood

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

• Arciga, Garcia, Garica

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡa.ʁik/

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agaric m (plural agarics)

1. agaric

   Synonym: psalliote

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