Crossword clues for jack-o-lantern
jack-o-lantern
WordNet
jack-o-lantern
n. a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-a-lantern, Omphalotus illudens]
Usage examples of "jack-o-lantern".
It was a jack-o-lantern: a circle of orange construction paper with three black triangles in it, one for each eye and one at the bottom that was apparently supposed to be the mouth.
Then there was the excitement of all the new things we might see in these rich, dark, storied mountains--giant salamanders and towering tulip trees and the famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent light called foxfire.