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:Cloud
  • any 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:Basidiomycete
  • common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

    Type of:Agaric
  • fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

    Type of:VegVegetableVeggie
  • mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)

    Type of:Agaric

Verb

  • grow and spread fast

    The problem mushroomed

    Type of:Grow
  • pick or gather mushrooms

    We went mushrooming in the Fall

    Type of:PickPluckCull

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