toadstool

English

Alternative forms

• toadestoole (obsolete)
• todestoole (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tode-stole, tadstol, taddestol, equivalent to toad +‎ stool. Compare dialectal English frogstool (“toadstool”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊdˌstuːl/
• (US) enPR: ʹtōd'sto͞ol, IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊdˌstu(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdstuːl, -oʊdstul, -oʊdstuəl

Noun

toadstool (plural toadstools)

1. Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.

Derived terms

• toadstool disease

 

Translations

an inedible or poisonous mushroom

• Bulgarian: гъба (особено отровна) f (gǎba (osobeno otrovna))
• Catalan: bolet verinós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒蕈 (zh) (dúxùn)

• Crimean Tatar: ağuv mantar
• Czech: muchomůrka (cs) m
• Danish: paddehat c
• Dutch: giftige paddestoel m, gifzwam m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: myrkkysieni (fi) (poisonous mushroom), kärpässieni (fi) (agaric), roskasieni (inedible)
• French: champignon vénéneux m
• German: Giftpilz (de)
• Hungarian: bolondgomba (hu), mérges gomba
• Icelandic: körtukollur m
• Irish: beacán bearaigh m
• Italian: fungo velenoso
• Japanese: 毒茸 (ja) (どくたけ, dokutake, どくきのこ, dokukinoko)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paddehatt m

  Nynorsk: paddehatt m

• Pennsylvania German: Giftschwamm
• Polish: muchomor (pl) m
• Portuguese: cogumelo venenoso m
• Russian: пога́нка (ru) f (pogánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: otrovna pečurka f, Cyrillic: отровна печурка f

  Roman: otrovna gljiva f, Cyrillic: отровна гљива f

• Slovene: mušnica (sl) f
• Spanish: seta venenosa
• Tagalog: kabuting-ahas

See also

• fungus/fungi
• mushroom