Toadstool
noun
1.
any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially 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.
noun
1.
(not in technical use) any basidiomycetous fungus with a capped spore-producing body that is not edible Compare mushroom (sense 1a)
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