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poisonous mushroom; toxic fungus
A mushroom that contains toxins harmful or fatal to humans when consumed.
毒茸に注意してください。
Please watch out for poisonous mushrooms.
毒茸と食用きのこは見分けにくい。
Poisonous and edible mushrooms are hard to tell apart.
毎年秋になると毒茸を食べて中毒になる事故が起きる。
Every autumn, there are incidents of poisoning from eating toxic mushrooms.
Composed of 毒 (poison) + 茸 (mushroom). Also sometimes read as どくたけ. Japan has numerous species of poisonous wild mushrooms, making this a practical vocabulary word during mushroom-hunting season in autumn.
COMMON POISONOUS SPECIES IN JAPAN:
- ツキヨタケ: moon night mushroom — the most common cause of mushroom poisoning in Japan
- ドクツルタケ: destroying angel — one of the most deadly
- カエンタケ: fire mushroom — toxic even to touch
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 毒茸に中毒する: to be poisoned by a toxic mushroom
- 毒茸を見分ける: to distinguish poisonous mushrooms
- 毒茸中毒: mushroom poisoning
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 食用きのこ: edible mushroom — the safe counterpart
- きのこ狩り: mushroom hunting — the activity where knowledge of 毒茸 matters
- 毒草: poisonous plant — the broader plant category