English

Noun

inkcap ‎(plural inkcaps)

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

     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.