chlorophyllum molybdites

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   a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color; cap can reach a diameter of 30 cm; often forms `fairy rings'

   Broaderagaric

Questions about chlorophyllum molybdites

What does chlorophyllum molybdites mean?

chlorophyllum molybdites means "a poisonous agaric with a fibrillose cap and brown scales on a white ground color; cap can reach a diameter of 30 cm; often forms `fairy rings'".

Is chlorophyllum molybdites a common word?

chlorophyllum molybdites 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.