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Death angel

noun

Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills. Synonyms: Amanita phalloides, death cap, death cup, destroying angel.

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"Death angel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara, which came into this world under the very shadow of the Death angel's wings, without having an intense desire to know how the premature bud blossomed? Again and again one lingers over the descriptions of the character of that baby boy Moses, who came through the tempest, amid the angry billows, pillowed ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... mountains the billows tremendously swell; In vain the lost wretch calls on Mercy to save; Unseen hands of spirits are ringing his knell, And the death angel flaps his broad wings ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

Words linked to "Death angel" : Amanita phalloides, Amanita, death cap, agaric, destroying angel, genus Amanita