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toadstool

/tohd-stool/US // ˈtoʊdˌstul //UK // (ˈtəʊdˌstuːl) //

蟾酥,蟾宫折桂,蛤蟆功,蛤蟆镜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
    • : a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.
    • : any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.

Examples

  • And yet men continue to believe that the mere sight of a pink toadstool will cause women to be overcome with lust.

  • If their lives were made into horror movies, that rampaging little pink toadstool would mow them down every time.

  • Grandfather Mole demanded of Mr. Meadow Mouse, almost as soon as he had stepped just outside the shade of the toadstool.

  • As he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.

  • "This toadstool is growing bigger all the time," Grandfather Mole explained.

  • They got all kinds of tony things–tomatoes and cucumbers and as-paragrass, and them little toadstool things.

  • No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.