/tohd"stoohl'/ , n.
1. any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, esp. the agarics.
2. a poisonous mushroom, as distinguished from an edible one.
3. any of various other fleshy fungi, as the puffballs and coral fungi.
[ 1350-1400; ME tadstol. See TOAD, STOOL ]