Mushroom
noun'məʃrum
Noun
a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
Type of:Cloudany of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
Type of:Basidiomycetecommon name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
Type of:Agaricfleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
Type of:VegVegetableVeggiemushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
Type of:Agaric
Verb
grow and spread fast
“The problem mushroomed”
Type of:Growpick or gather mushrooms
“We went mushrooming in the Fall”
Type of:PickPluckCull
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