WordNet
n. common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores [syn: shaggymane, shaggymane mushroom, Coprinus comatus]
Usage examples of "shaggy cap".
Sean was dressed in a cloak of colobus monkey skins and he wore Somali sandals of elephant hide on his feet and a shaggy cap of monkey skin covered his obviously Caucasian hair.
Napoleon walked about in front of his tent, looked at the fires and listened to these sounds, and as he was passing a tall guardsman in a shaggy cap, who was standing sentinel before his tent and had drawn himself up like a black pillar at sight of the Emperor, Napoleon stopped in front of him.
A few moments later Goldie Lesher lurched across the threshold, his face looking as bleached and rubbery as a corpse's under the shaggy cap of golden curls.
Tholie told him the word for the shaggy cap mushroom in her language and in Sharamudoi.
The other bore a great shaggy cap or helmet from which sprang buffalo horns.
And this was the detail that really got himthe shaggy cap of blond hair was not only a good imitation of his, it was his.
On his head he wore a shaggy cap, while, with a magnificent horn slung across his shoulders and a knife at his belt, he looked so cruel and inexorable that one would have thought he was going to engage in bloody strife with his fellow men rather than to hunt a small animal.
A noncommissioned officer of hussars, in a crimson uniform and shaggy cap, challenged the approaching envoy and ordered him to halt.