The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word AGARIC
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More clues leading to the result AGARIC
- Smelly plant leaves large on a fungus
- Plant a bulb with no end of soil
- Mushroom cloud’s heading after Gagarin, whose shield’s shot
- A fish I caught — or mushroom?
- Stove’s on … cereal shortly, and mushroom
- A bulb not left to turn into a fungus
- Plant in a garden half eaten? I start to cry
- Mushroom in stove; finish off side dish
- Fungus in food briefly stored under stove
- A pungent bulb, left out, can generate fungus
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What does AGARIC mean?
AGARIC noun- Any of various fungi, principally of the order Agaricales, having fruiting bodies consisting of umbrella-like caps, on stalks, with numerous gills beneath.
- A dried fruiting body of a fungus formerly used in medicine (now Fomitopsis officinalis, formerly Fomes officinalis, Polyporus officinalis).