toadstool

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Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an agaric
A toadstool is a fungus that you cannot eat because it is poisonous. a wild plant like a mushroom, that can be poisonous (Because it looks like a small seat on which a toad could sit)
{n} a soft fungous plant like a mushroom
They grow on decaying organic matter
common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)
A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus
The species are almost numberless
{i} umbrella-shaped poisonous mushroom
toadstools
plural of toadstool
toadstool

    Hyphenation

    toad·stool

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    Etymology

    [ -"stül ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English tadde (toad) tadie, of unknown origin; + Middle English stole (stool) stol *stolaz *sta-lo-, locative of Proto-Indo-European base *sta- (to stand).
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