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agaric

Any fungus of the family Agaricaceae, including the familiar commercially grown mushroom. Agarics have spore-bearing cells (basidia) located on thin sheets called gills. Best known of the agarics is the genus , which includes more than 200 species, the most prominent being the edible meadow, or field, mushroom, , and the common cultivated mushroom,

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