toadstool• What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashyitems -- to push through two inches of asphalt?• The warmth and mildness has brought a finecrop of toadstools.• The whole effect grotesquely resembled a giant mushroom or toadstool.• All the magic of scholars can not turn this sacredtoadstool into a real living Holy City.• It was not yet dusk, but the drive up to Kevin's mockTudor house was lined with lit-up toadstools.• It was for children, rabbits having a picnic in a wood with toadstools, birds.• She led her up a stonestaircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on woodentoadstools.
Origintoadstool
(1300-1400) Because it looks like a small seat on which a toad could sit