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


toadstool

/ ˈtəʊdˌstuːl /

noun

  1. not in technical use any basidiomycetous fungus with a capped spore-producing body that is not edible Compare mushroom
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of toadstool1

First recorded in 1350–1400, toadstool is from the Middle English word tadstol. See toad, stool
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Word History and Origins

Origin of toadstool1

C14: from toad + stool
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Example Sentences

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.

As he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.

"This toadstool is growing bigger all the time," Grandfather Mole explained.

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

No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.

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