[
UK
/stˈɪŋkhɔːn/
]
NOUN
-
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
How To Use stinkhorn In A Sentence
- I remember going with her along country paths, watching her smash stinkhorns with a special stick that she reserved for the purpose.
- It has an abominably disgusting odour, and is therefore named the "lattice stinkhorn. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- Davidson's book also sent me to my battered copy of David Arora's Mushrooms Demystified -- the one book you must have if you want to hunt mushrooms-- for this anecdote by the Victorian memoirist Gwen Raverat about the smelly, phallic, stinkhorn mushroom. "Because of the morals of the maids"...
- The common “stinkhorn,” extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour. The Land of Midian
- The Wady-sole grew a "stinkhorn" held to be poisonous, and called, from its fetor, "Faswat el-Agúz The Land of Midian — Volume 2
- These were full of the last of the foxgloves and the sickly, overpowering waft of the mysterious stinkhorn fungus. How to get back to nature when camping
- The service is performed for stinkhorns by flies, which are attracted by the smell of rotting carrion which they emit and which accounts for ‘stink’ in their name.
- You must have hatched from a sick stinkhorn, you nauseous avian peeper. Pet Peeve
- The mulch by our local supermarket must have been seeded with stinkhorn spores; they're all coming up now, in all their masculine glory. Hilarious mushrooms
- stinkhorn," extremely common in some districts of England, and obtruding on the notice of every one from its detestable odour. The Land of Midian — Volume 2