A man and a woman gathered toadstools (7)
I believe the answer is:
amanita
'a man and a woman gathered toadstools' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'a man and a woman' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'm' (M is an abbreviation for male or masculine).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'woman' becomes 'nita' ().
'a'+'m'+'a'+'nita'='AMANITA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for amanita that I've seen before include "Poisonous mushroom" , "fungus that could be deadly" , "Variety of mushroom" , "Mushroom genus" , "Genus of mushrooms" .)