inkcap

English

Etymology

From ink +‎ cap, after its secretion.

Noun

inkcap (plural inkcaps)

1. A fungus of one of the genera Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis.
   • 2015 September 3, Phil Gates, The Guardian:

     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.

   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 7:

     Pick an ink cap and you can fry it up and eat it.

Derived terms

• shaggy inkcap

Related terms

• inky cap

Translations

fungus of the genus Coprinus, Coprinellus or Coprinopsis

• Bulgarian: сива копринка f (siva koprinka), копринка f (koprinka)
• Czech: hnojník m
• Danish: blækhat c
• Dutch: inktzwam (nl) m or f
• Finnish: mustesieni
• French: coprin (fr) m
• German: Tintling m
• Hungarian: tintagomba (hu)
• Italian: coprino (it) m
• Japanese: ヒトヨタケ, 一夜茸 (hitoyotake)
• Lithuanian: mėšlagrybis m
• Polish: czernidłak m
• Russian: наво́зник (ru) m (navóznik)
• Slovak: hnojník m
• Swedish: bläcksvamp c
• Ukrainian: гнойови́к m (hnojovýk)

Anagrams

• pack in, pack-in, packin', panick