toadstool

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toad⋅stool

[tohd-stool]

–noun

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

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

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

Origin:
1350–1400; ME tadstol. See toad, stool

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toad·stool (tōd'stōōl')

n. An inedible or poisonous fungus with an umbrella-shaped fruiting body.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: toad·stool
Pronunciation: -"stül
Function: noun
: a fungus having an umbrella-shaped pileus : MUSHROOM; especially : a poisonous or inedible one as distinguished from an edible mushroom

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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toadstool

any of various inedible or poisonous species of mushrooms (kingdom Fungi). See mushroom.

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