toadstool
IPA: tˈoʊdstˈuɫ
noun
- Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.
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Examples of "toadstool" in Sentences
- But a dangerous toadstool can look just like a delectable one.
- I don't think toadstool cheyney said this many words while he was vp.
- The boys always say that a toadstool is the old Squire's 'mark' on a log. "
- The classic 'toadstool' look with a red top and white dots it's very easy to spot.
- I thought that thing you have in your hand was a new kind of toadstool, growing on the fence.
- "If your head clerk says that our toadstool is a mushroom, while Mr. Bungwall's gardener says that our mushroom is
- Europeans believed that toads derived their poisons from the earth by eating mushrooms hence the English name toadstool.
- As to my nose, I could absolutely see nothing of its shape; the firelight just caught the round tip, which shone like a little white toadstool from the gloom, and this was all.
- _ The first thing in deciding the nature of a toadstool is the sporeprint, made thus: Cut off the stem of the toadstool and lay the gills down on a piece of gray paper under a vessel of any kind.
- "And, indeed, sir," said Miss Betty, who had rubbed her nose till it looked like the twin toadstool to that which the baby was flourishing in her face, "you don't suppose I would have left the poor little thing another moment, to catch its death of cold on a
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