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Toadstool vs. Mushroom — What's the Difference?

Toadstool vs. Mushroom — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Toadstool and Mushroom

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Toadstool

The spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically in the form of a rounded cap on a stalk, especially one that is believed to be inedible or poisonous.

Mushroom

A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing.

Toadstool

A fungus with an umbrella-shaped fruiting body, especially one thought to be inedible or poisonous.

Mushroom

Any of various fungi that produce a fleshy fruiting body, especially one consisting of a stalk with an umbrella-shaped cap.

Toadstool

Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an agaric.
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Mushroom

Any of such fungi that are edible, especially the widely cultivated species Agaricus bisporus, which includes the button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms.

Toadstool

A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

Mushroom

The usually aboveground fruiting body of any of such fungi.

Toadstool

Common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)

Mushroom

One of these fruiting bodies that produce hallucinations when ingested. Also called magic mushroom.

Mushroom

Something shaped like one of these fungi.

Mushroom

To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly
The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.

Mushroom

To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.

Mushroom

To collect wild mushrooms.

Mushroom

Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms
Mushroom sauce.

Mushroom

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence
Mushroom towns.

Mushroom

Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul.

Mushroom

A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

Mushroom

Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.

Mushroom

Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.

Mushroom

(architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.

Mushroom

One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

Mushroom

(figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.

Mushroom

Ellipsis of mushroom cloud

Mushroom

Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
Mushroom cloud

Mushroom

To grow quickly to a large size.
The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.

Mushroom

To gather mushrooms.
We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.

Mushroom

To form the shape of a mushroom.

Mushroom

To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.

Mushroom

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

Mushroom

One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

Mushroom

Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

Mushroom

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

Mushroom

To grow or expand rapidly.

Mushroom

To grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full-blown war.

Mushroom

Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

Mushroom

Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

Mushroom

A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

Mushroom

Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

Mushroom

Pick or gather mushrooms;
We went mushrooming in the Fall

Mushroom

Grow and spread fast;
The problem mushroomed

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