toadstool

How To Use toadstool In A Sentence

• What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashy items -- to push through two inches of asphalt?
• ‘I fell in love with toadstools,’ she explained.
• It is, however, to the latter, to the lowly and ugly agarics, that nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools.
• All around the two girls grew large specimens of fungi: mushrooms nearly as tall as them grew from the ground, and toadstools and bracken protruded from the rocky walls in clumps.
• The fly agaric or fairy toadstool grows here too, especially under birch along with other woodland fungi.
• The walls teemed with framed paintings, while bric-a-brac sprang from every possible surface, toadstools in a forest. IN A STRANGE CITY
• In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools.
• These true mycorrhizae include such macro-fungi as the toadstools and the hypogeous truffles and tuckahoes.
• Some apply the term mushroom to a single species, the one in cultivation, and which grows also in fields (_Agaricus campestris_), and call all others toadstools. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
• The toadstool is tawny yellow, and produces white spores; the gills are decurrent, and the stem bears a ring. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888