death cap

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Amanita phalloides

Wikipedia

Noun

death cap (plural death caps)

1. The deadly poisonous mushroom Amanita phalloides.

   Synonym: death cup

   • 2025 June 3, Nino Bucci, “Erin Patterson accepts beef wellington served at fatal lunch contained death cap mushrooms, triple murder trial hears”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Erin Patterson has told a court that the majority of the mushrooms in a beef wellington dish served in her Leongatha home came from a local supermarket, but says she also accepts the dish contained death caps.

Translations

Amanita phalloides

Bulgarian: зелена мухоморка (zelena muhomorka) Catalan: farinera borda f, cogoma verda f, farinot m Chinese: Mandarin: 毒鵝膏 / 毒鹅膏 (dú'égāo) Czech: muchomůrka zelená f Danish: grøn fluesvamp c Dutch: groene knolamaniet (nl) Estonian: roheline kärbseseen (et) Finnish: kavalakärpässieni (fi) French: amanite phalloïde (fr) f German: Grüner Knollenblätterpilz (de) m Hungarian: gyilkos galóca (hu) Irish: caidhp bháis f Japanese: 卵天狗茸, タマゴテングタケ (たまごてんぐたけ, tamagotengutake) Norwegian: grønn fluesopp Polish: muchomor zielonawy (pl) m, muchomor sromotnikowy (pl) m Russian: бле́дная пога́нка (ru) f (blédnaja pogánka) Spanish: oronja verde f Swedish: lömsk flugsvamp (sv) c

See also

• amanitin
• destroying angel (closely related)

Etymology 2

From a clipping of capacitor.

Noun

death cap (plural death caps)

1. (slang, music) A potentially dangerous capacitor on the primary side of the power transformer in a guitar amp.