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00:06 Feb 6, 2010
English to Romanian translations [PRO] Science - Botany
English term or phrase:toadstool
Contextul este foarte clar ("Poisonous mushrooms are called toadstools") dar nu gasesc un echivalent in romana. S-ar potrivi cu textul si un termen stiintific, si unul popular.
Multumesc. Probabil ca voi merge pe ciuperca necomestibila sau toxica, dar tare mi-ar fi placut un termen tehnic impresionant sau unul popular care sa dea culoare/savoare propozitiei. :)
The terms "Mushroom" and "Toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.
The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.[3]
The word has apparent analogies in Dutch padde(n)stoel (toad-stool/chair, mushroom) and German Krötenschwamm (toad-fungus, alt. word for panther cap). Others have proposed a connection with German "Todesstuhl" (lit. "death's chair").[4] Since Tod is a direct cognate to death, in that case it would be a German borrowing.
The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). The toadstool's connection to toads may be direct, in reference to some species of poisonous toad,[5] or may just be a case of phono-semantic matching from the German word.[6] However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.
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