toadstool

[ tohd-stool ]

noun
  1. any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.

  2. a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.

  1. any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.

Origin of toadstool

1
First recorded in 1350–1400, toadstool is from the Middle English word tadstol.See toad, stool

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How to use toadstool in a sentence

  • They got all kinds of tony things–tomatoes and cucumbers and as-paragrass, and them little toadstool things.

    Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates
  • No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.

    In the Wilds of Florida | W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for toadstool

toadstool

/ (ˈtəʊdˌstuːl) /


noun
  1. (not in technical use) any basidiomycetous fungus with a capped spore-producing body that is not edible: Compare mushroom (def. 1a)

Origin of toadstool

1
C14: from toad + stool

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