stinkhorn

IPA: stˈɪŋkhɝn

Any fungus of the order Phallales, which produce a foul-scented, rod-shaped mushroom.

Examples of "stinkhorn" in Sentences

To turn this stinkhorn into a rose.
This stinkhorn has not been reported as edible.
Stinkhorn mushrooms are examples of fungi with this characteristic.
"You must have hatched from a sick stinkhorn, you nauseous avian peeper."
The structure of the egg can be seen from the photo of a cut stinkhorn egg.
The Phallaceae are a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorn mushrooms.
It has an abominably disgusting odour, and is therefore named the "lattice stinkhorn."
The Wady-sole grew a "stinkhorn" held to be poisonous, and called, from its fetor, "Faswat el-Agúz"
These were full of the last of the foxgloves and the sickly, overpowering waft of the mysterious stinkhorn fungus.
"stinkhorn," extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour.
The mulch by our local supermarket must have been seeded with stinkhorn spores; they're all coming up now, in all their masculine glory.
The common “stinkhorn,” extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour.
The most common question he gets is about a "common but bizarre" fungus called a stinkhorn, which comes up around people's houses in the summer.
Davidson's book also sent me to my battered copy of David Arora's Mushrooms Demystified -- the one book you must have if you want to hunt mushrooms-- for this anecdote by the Victorian memoirist Gwen Raverat about the smelly, phallic, stinkhorn mushroom.