jack-o-lantern fungus

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   a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent

   Synonymsjack-o-lanternjack-a-lanternOmphalotus illudens

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofOmphalotus

Questions about jack-o-lantern fungus

What does jack-o-lantern fungus mean?

jack-o-lantern fungus means "a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent".

What is another word for jack-o-lantern fungus?

Close synonyms include jack-o-lantern, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens. 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 jack-o-lantern fungus a common word?

jack-o-lantern fungus 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.