WordNet
genus Agaricus
n. type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species [syn: Agaricus]
Usage examples of "genus agaricus".
The term 'Agaric' is, of course, more properly applied to the Fungi of the genus Agaricus (see above), but in medicine it has long been applied to this species of fungus, P.