toadstool

toadstool
/tohd"stoohl'/, n.
1. any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, esp. the agarics.
2. a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.
3. any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.
[1350-1400; ME tadstol. See TOAD, STOOL]

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      any of various inedible or poisonous species of mushrooms (kingdom Fungi). See mushroom.

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