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stinkhorn

[ UK /stˈɪŋkhɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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