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mushroom

/ˈmʌʃˌɹum/noun, verb2 syllables

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

Synonyms for mushroom2

noun, as in 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

Opposites of mushroom

toadstool

What does mushroom mean?7

noun

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

verb

1

pick or gather mushrooms“We went mushrooming in the Fall”

2

grow and spread fast“The problem mushroomed”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Mushroom in a sentence

  • Nemesio smoked a pipe, sitting on a mushroom.DJ_Saidez
  • If you don't know what kind of mushroom it is, better not take it.AlanF_US
  • Any mushroom can be eaten, but some only once.CK
  • The golden rule of mushroom foraging: when in doubt, leave it out.frpzzd
  • If you don't know that mushroom, don't pick it.Ergulis
  • Mushrooms are in season now, so they are cheap.CK
  • We went into the forest, and there were mushrooms, lots of them!AlanF_US
  • About to be fried, these mushrooms were cut into small pieces.Dejo

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of mushroom

as a noun

plural
mushrooms

as a verb

past tense
mushroomed
present participle
mushrooming
third-person singular
mushrooms
past participle
mushroomed