Definitions for Amanita

Amanita am·a·ni·ta

Spelling: [am-uh-nahy-tuh, -nee-]
IPA: /ˌæm əˈnaɪ tə, -ˈni-/

Amanita is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in Amanita (aaaimnt).

Definitions for Amanita

noun

  1. any agaricaceous fungus of the genus Amanita, comprised chiefly of poisonous species.

Origin of Amanita

1821; New Latin Greek amānîtai (plural) kind of fungi

Examples for Amanita

The amanita, like most falsehoods, is pleasant to the sight.

This species is considered by some only a white variety of amanita phalloides.

I have never found an amanita in a lawn, pasture, or garden.

The name given by Letellier to the poisonous principle of amanita muscaria, and some other species of fungi.

These poisonings could have been occasioned only by the amanita.

It is not so warty and the odor is not nearly so strong as the amanita strobiliformis.

The species of this subgenus were formerly included in amanita.

It is true that the amanita has both, but it must be known by other characteristics.

But we may feast our eyes on the amanita, and all other mushrooms, with no fear of consequences.

But the type of the class may be taken as the amanita muscaria.

Word Value for Amanita
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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