stinkhorn

IPA: stˈɪŋkhɝn

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

Examples of "stinkhorn" in Sentences

"You must have hatched from a sick stinkhorn, you nauseous avian peeper."
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.