noun
Meaning 1
The deadly poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: death cup
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
death cap
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noun
Meaning 2
A potentially dangerous capacitor on the primary side of the power transformer in a guitar amp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: death cup, death angel, destroying angel, Amanita phalloides
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agaric
History
Etymology
From a clipping of capacitor.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: зелена мухоморка (zelena muhomorka) — Amanita phalloides
- Catalan: farinera borda — Amanita phalloides
- Catalan: cogoma verda — Amanita phalloides
- Catalan: farinot — Amanita phalloides
- Chinese Mandarin: 毒鵝膏 /毒鹅膏 (dú'égāo) — Amanita phalloides
- Czech: muchomůrka zelená — Amanita phalloides
- Danish: grøn fluesvamp — Amanita phalloides
- Dutch: groene knolamaniet — Amanita phalloides
- Esperanto: faloida amanito — Amanita phalloides
- Esperanto: falusa amanito — Amanita phalloides
- Esperanto: faluseca amanito — Amanita phalloides
- Estonian: roheline kärbseseen — Amanita phalloides
- Finnish: kavalakärpässieni — Amanita phalloides
- French: amanite phalloïde — Amanita phalloides
- German: Grüner Knollenblätterpilz — Amanita phalloides
- Hungarian: gyilkos galóca — Amanita phalloides
- Irish: caidhp bháis — Amanita phalloides
- Japanese: 卵天狗茸 — Amanita phalloides
- Japanese: タマゴテングタケ (tamagotengutake) — Amanita phalloides
- Norwegian: grønn fluesopp — Amanita phalloides
- Polish: muchomor zielonawy — Amanita phalloides
- Polish: muchomor sromotnikowy — Amanita phalloides
- Russian: бле́дная пога́нка (blédnaja pogánka) — Amanita phalloides
- Spanish: oronja verde — Amanita phalloides
- Swedish: lömsk flugsvamp — Amanita phalloides