Stinkhorn

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stinkhorn \Stink"horn`\, n. (Bot.)
     A kind of fungus of the genus {Phallus}, which emits a fetid
     odor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stinkhorn
       n : any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order
           Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts
           insects that carry the spores away on their feet" [syn: {carrion
           fungus}]