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Definition: Toadstool |
ToadstoolNoun1. Common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toadstool" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Antonym: mushroom (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetable | Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Toadstool |
| English words defined with "toadstool": Muscarin, mushroom ♦ Paddock stool, Pixy stool. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toadstool": Puff-ball. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Frog on toadstool at Spruce Reach Island. Credit: C. Garland. |  | Frog reading to winged fairy or butterfly on toadstool. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Classic toadstool" by Stella Reese Commentary: "Red toadstool with white dots in Brassy, France. It's slightly unsharp, please sharpen it to your taste ;)." | "Fly agaric 2" by L L Commentary: "Flyagaric toadstool." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Toadstool" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toadstool" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "toadstool"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | këpurdhë (fungus, mushroom). (various references) | |
Arabic | الغاريقون ضرب من الفطور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гъба (agaric, fungus, mushroom, sponge). (various references) | |
Czech | muchomùrka (toad stool). (various references) | |
Danish | svamp hørende til familien Agaricacae (agaric, bracket fungi), bladhat (agaric, bracket fungi). (various references) | |
Dutch | plaatzwam (agaric, bracket fungi), plaatjeszwam (agaric, bracket fungi), paddestoel (fungus, mushroom). (various references) | |
Finnish | sieni (fungus, fungus mushroom, mushroom, sponge), myrkkysieni, helttasieni (agaric, bracket fungi). (various references) | |
French | champignon vénéneux, agaric. (various references) | |
German | Giftpilz. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mérges gomba. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jamur (fungus, mildew, mushroom), cendawan (fungus, mildew, moth, mushroom). (various references) | |
Italian | fungo velenoso, agarico (agaric, bracket fungi). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 毒茸 (poisonous mushroom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どくたけ (poisonous mushroom), どくきのこ (poisonous mushroom). (various references) | |
Manx | moon moddee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oadstooltay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cogumelo venenoso (death-cup), chapéu-de-cobra, agárico (mushroom). (various references) | |
Romanian | ciupercã otrãvitoare (death cup), ciupercã (mushroom, topper). (various references) | |
Russian | поганка (fairy-mushroom, grebe). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlatača. (various references) | |
Shona | fodya yegudo. (various references) | |
Spanish | seta venenosa, agaricales (agaric, bracket fungi). (various references) | |
Swedish | skivsvamp, skivling (agaric), giftig svamp, flugsvamp (amanita, death cap, fly agaric). (various references) | |
Turkish | zehirli mantar (rust-fungus). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поганка (amanita). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nấm mũ độc. (various references) | |
Welsh | madalch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | tadde. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toadstool": toadstools. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-l-o-o-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: tostado. | |
-3 letters: dattos, lottos, totals. | |
-4 letters: altos, datos, datto, doats, dolts, dotal, loads, loots, lotas, lotos, lotto, ottos, soldo, sotol, stoat, stood, stool, toads, toast, tolas, tools, toots, total. | |
-5 letters: ados, also, alto, alts, dals, dato, doat, dols, dolt, dost, dots, lads, last, lats, load, loos, loot, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, olds, oots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-l-o-o-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: toadstools. | |
+2 letters: odontoblast. | |
+3 letters: odontoblasts, postdoctoral. | |
+4 letters: odontoblastic. | |
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