mushroom
Nouns
- (n) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- (n) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- (n) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- (n) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud,
- (n) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
Verbs
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(v) pick or gather mushrooms
- We went mushrooming in the Fall
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(v) grow and spread fast
- The problem mushroomed