toadstool
noun
any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
toadstools
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pluralof toadstool.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
It doesn’t take long for the bigger cabbages to look like bolted toadstools on steroids.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
Mycelium, like yeast, molds and toadstools, are neither animals nor plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Denise Jones said there was persistent black mould in her bathroom and found toadstools growing in her kitchen.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022
I regarded this as a fairy-tale farm as surely imagined as gnomes sitting under toadstools.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
