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Mushroom

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Noun

1. mushroom

common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

2. mushroom

mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)

3. mushroom

any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

4. mushroom, mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud

a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

5. mushroom

fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

Verb

6. mushroom

pick or gather mushrooms

Example Sentences:
'We went mushrooming in the Fall'

7. mushroom

grow and spread fast

Example Sentences:
'The problem mushroomed'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mushroom

see synonyms of mushroom
noun
1. 
a. 
the fleshy spore-producing body of any of various basidiomycetous fungi, typically consisting of a cap (pileus) at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium. Some species, such as the field mushroom, are edible
Compare pileus, toadstool
b. 
(as modifier)
mushroom soup
2. 
the fungus producing any of these structures
3. 
a. 
something resembling a mushroom in shape or rapid growth
b. 
(as modifier)
mushroom expansion
verb (intransitive)
4. 
to grow rapidly
demand mushroomed overnight
5. 
to assume a mushroom-like shape
6. 
to gather mushrooms

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mushroom

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adjective
3. 
of or made with mushrooms
4. 
like a mushroom in shape or rapid growth
a mushroom cloud
verb intransitive
5. 
to hunt for and gather wild mushrooms
6. 
to grow or spread rapidly
7. 
to flatten out at the end so as to resemble a mushroom
noun
1. 
a. 
any of various rapidly growing, fleshy fungi, typically having a stalk capped with an umbrellalike top; esp., a gill or pore fungus
b. 
the fruiting body of such a fungus
c. 
an edible fruiting body of such a fungus
2. 
anything like a mushroom in shape or rapid growth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mushroom

see synonyms of mushroom
n.
1.
a. Any of various fungi that produce a fleshy fruiting body, especially one consisting of a stalk with an umbrella-shaped cap.
b. Any of such fungi that are edible, especially the widely cultivated species Agaricus bisporus, which includes the button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms.
c. The usually aboveground fruiting body of any of such fungi.
d. One of these fruiting bodies that produce hallucinations when ingested. Also called magic mushroom.
2. Something shaped like one of these fungi.
intr.v. mush·roomed, mush·room·ing, mush·rooms
1. To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly: The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.
2. To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.
3. To collect wild mushrooms.
adj.
1. Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms: mushroom sauce.
2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence: mushroom towns.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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