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- noun Plural form of
toadstool .
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Examples
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Then came long weeks of patient sitting on them, watching the wonder of growing things about her, the bursting into bloom of shy wood flowers, the unfolding of leaves on bush and tree, the springing up in a night of queer mushrooms, which people call toadstools, and all the time dreaming beautiful
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Mushrooms, sometimes called toadstools, are the reproductive or fruiting stage of fungi.
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Toussaint, after the autumnal rains, you may find an abundance of the mushrooms or "toadstools" that affect the conifers; especially the delicious Lactaris, which turns green if the points are rubbed and drips blood if broken.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The material's surface consists of 300-nanometer-tall "toadstools" with broad silicon dioxide caps and narrow silicon stems.
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In one area the fear and terror would live on, either of a particular mushroom (as in the case of Amanita muscaria); or else, as the emotional focus through tabu became vague, of "toadstools" in general; and in another area, for a reason that we cannot now tell, it was the spirit of love and adoration that survived.
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"toadstools" and as such particularly repulsive and poisonous.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Who wants to spend his life rooting around dusty museum drawers and delving into field identification manuals, in order to meticulously classify bugs and toadstools?
The Fungus Among Us Multiplies As Mycological Taxonomists Wither Gautam Naik 2011
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The status quo is astroturf ed reform groups springing up like toadstools in the night, heavily funded by the same "venture philathropists" looking for a "return on their investment" and pushing the same corporate ed reform agenda.
Sue Peters: Why I Am Not A Defender Of The 'Status Quo' In Education Sue Peters 2011
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Tight clusters of spiny puffballs and sulphur tufts, troops of fairy inkcaps and the yellow caps of brittlegill toadstools flanked the footpath.
Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland Phil Gates 2010
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But now, like some of the toadstools he studies, Dr. Watling is part of a vanishing breed.
The Fungus Among Us Multiplies As Mycological Taxonomists Wither Gautam Naik 2011
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