Maltese mushroom
noun
A parasitic flowering plant, Cynomorium coccineum (family Cynomoriaceae), once thought peculiar to Malta and Gozo, which was formerly called Fungus melitensis because of its resemblance to a stinkhorn fungus and valued as a styptic.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- death match
- death metal
- death moth
- death notice
- death-obsessed
- death-or-glory
- death penalty
- death penny
- death pile
- deathplace
- death rate
- death rattle
- death ray
- death ring
- death roll
- death rope
- death row
- death's door
- death sentence
- death's face
- death's gate
- death's head
- death's head hawkmoth
- death's head monkey
- death's head moth