toadstool
Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanitaAny inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.
» I still haven't seen a single toadstool this season.
Meaning
1 sensesAny inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.
Giftpilz
пога́нкаpogánka
common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)
Examples
5 sentencesI still haven't seen a single toadstool this season.
We're going on a little mushroom walk together today to look for toadstools.
deWir machen heute zusammen eine kleine Pilzwanderung, um Fliegenpilze zu suchen.
The difference between mushrooms and toadstools is purely a matter of nomenclature, not biology.
The toadstools were mostly white.
What was the name of the character that had a toadstool hat in Super Mario Brothers?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English tode-stole, tadstol, taddestol, equivalent to toad + stool. Compare diFrom Middle English tode-stole, tadstol, taddestol, equivalent to toad + stool. Compare dialectal English frogstool (“toadstool”), Saterland Frisian Poagestoul (“mushroom”, literally “frog's stool”), Dutch paddenstoel.
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Forms
plural: toadstools| Singular | toadstool |
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| Plural | toadstools |
regular