Toadstool

3 definitions found

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

  Toadstool \Toad"stool`\, n. (Bot.)
     A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the
     genus {Agaricus}. The species are almost numberless. They
     grow on decaying organic matter.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  toadstool
       n : common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting
           with the edible mushroom) [ant: {mushroom}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "toadstool":
     algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva,
     confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus,
     fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy,
     kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss,
     mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte,
     phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse,
     red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum,
     sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, vetch,
     vine, wort, wrack