toadstool
any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.
any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.
Origin of toadstool
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How to use toadstool in a sentence
And yet men continue to believe that the mere sight of a pink toadstool will cause women to be overcome with lust.
If their lives were made into horror movies, that rampaging little pink toadstool would mow them down every time.
Grandfather Mole demanded of Mr. Meadow Mouse, almost as soon as he had stepped just outside the shade of the toadstool.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyAs he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott Bailey"This toadstool is growing bigger all the time," Grandfather Mole explained.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott Bailey
They got all kinds of tony things–tomatoes and cucumbers and as-paragrass, and them little toadstool things.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor GatesNo 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
/ (ˈtəʊdˌstuːl) /
(not in technical use) any basidiomycetous fungus with a capped spore-producing body that is not edible: Compare mushroom (def. 1a)
Origin of toadstool
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