toadstool
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- noun
- /ˈtoʊdˌstuːl/
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seta venenosa
- In the forest, we found a cluster of large toadstools that had grown after the heavy rain.
- powdered toadstool
- little toadstool
Examples
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Stay clear of toadstool rings and willow trees... and old oaks.
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Calm lakes lie on either side, and tall pines provide shade for moss, toadstools, and blueberries—easy to see how fairy tales are born.
Blog text (31) -
Perhaps a ring of toadstools will appear around him.
Fiction book (2001) -
Red and Jack sit with Leila under Alice's big toadstool.
Fiction book (1999) -
l'm sure you'll find it will almost certainly turn out to be a toadstool, and make you deathly ill.
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In October, they had gone into the woods, looking for chanterelles, little golden things that Mike would have called toadstools if his grandfather hadn't pointed out the difference.
Fiction book (1999) -
From one end of the long hedge to the other, garishly painted ceramic elves disported themselves in various pursuits, from carving pumpkins to playing cards on a toadstool.
Fiction book (1996) -
"There are no common men," Emerson boomed, and Dickens's novels reminded him too much of humanity as it actually is, prolific and irrepressible and common as toadstools.
Academic text (2010) -
The children were warned not to touch the bright red toadstools, as they could be poisonous.
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He mistook the toadstools for edible mushrooms, which put him in danger.
How Poisonous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Toadstool comes from the simple parts toad and stool, an image that suggests a 'toad's seat'. People long ago imagined toads sitting on these small fungi, so toadstool came to mean a small, often poisonous mushroom that you should not eat.