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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