单词 | toadstool-like |
释义 | > as lemmastoadstool-like attributive and in other combinations, as toadstool-eater, toadstool-eating, toadstool-growth; toadstool-like adj. ΚΠ 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 137 Some of these penny-reading toadstool-eaters would even turn a toad off its stool to eat its seat. 1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi Pref. 6 So far as ‘toadstool eating’ goes, I believe I have a right to speak with authority, since my own gastronomic experiments have been many, frequent, and varied. 1892 Antidote 20 Sept. 303 Wretched sects of toadstool growth, which spring up, fester and die out around us. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/1 A writing-table (in the North Room) with numerous toadstool-like projections..whose ugliness and inconvenience are only too obvious. < as lemmas |
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