agaric

Other forms of agaric

plural

agarics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agaric

What does agaric mean?

agaric means "fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agaric?

agaric has 3 syllables: a-ga-ric. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for agaric?

Close synonyms include Fomes igniarius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agaric a common word?

agaric is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.