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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
AGARIC
n.[Gr. ] In botany, mushroom, a genus of funguses, containing numerous species. Mushrooms grow on trees, or spring from the earth; of the latter species some are valued as articles of food; others are poisonous. The name was originally given to a fungus growing on the larch. This species is now frequent in the shops, and distinguished by the name of female agaric. From this fungus is extracted a turpentine, of which three fourths of its weight is a resinous substance; the rest, a slimy, mucilaginous, earthy matter, tenacious and almost insoluble in water. It is used in dyeing, but is little esteemed in medicine.
The Agaric of the oak is called touch-wood, from its readiness to take fire.
Agaric mineral, a calcarious earth, or carbonate of lime, resembling a fungus in color and texture; found in fissures of rocks, and on the roofs of caverns. It is sometimes used as an astringent in fluxes, and a styptic in hemorrhages. It occurs in a loose semi-indurated form, white or whitish red, or yellow, light and friable. Kirwan mentions three varieties.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
AGARIC
Ag "a *ric, n. Etym: [L. agaricum, Gr. Agara, a town in Sarmatia. ]
1. (Bot. )
Defn: A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
2. An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.
Note: The "female agaric " (Polyporus officinalic ) was renowned as a cathartic; the "male agaric " (Polyporus igniarius ) is used for preparing touchwood, called punk of German tinder. Agaric mineral, a light, chalky deposit of carbonate of lime, sometimes called rock milk, formed in caverns or fissures of limestone.
New American Oxford Dictionary
agaric
ag a ric |ˈagərik, əˈgar -ˈæɡərɪk | ▶noun a fungus with a fruiting body that resembles the ordinary mushroom, having a convex or flattened cap with gills on the underside. [Order Agaricales, class Basidiomycetes, in particular the mushroom family Agaricaceae. ] ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting various bracket fungi with medicinal or other uses ): from Latin agaricum, from Greek agarikon ‘tree fungus. ’
Oxford Dictionary
agaric
agaric |ˈag (ə )rɪk, əˈgɑːrɪk | ▶noun a fungus with a fruiting body that resembles a mushroom, having a convex or flattened cap with gills on the underside. ●Order Agaricales, class Hymenomycetes, in particular the mushroom family Agaricaceae. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting various bracket fungi with medicinal or other uses ): from Latin agaricum, from Greek agarikon ‘tree fungus ’.
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