inkcap
nounEtymology From ink + cap, after its secretion.
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A fungus of one of the genera Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis.
- The outer ranks of a troop of several hundred fairy inkcaps, Coprinellus disseminatus, encircling a coppiced hazel stool, are already deliquescing into gooey black spore-laden ink that will soon be carried away on the feet of beetles and flies.2015 September 3, Phil Gates, The Guardian:
- Pick an ink cap and you can fry it up and eat it.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 7:
- Derived terms
- magpie inkcap, shaggy inkcap
- Related terms
- inky cap