mush·room (m sh r m , -r m )n.1. Any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds, as those of the genus Agaricus. 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. adj.1. Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms: mushroom sauce. 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence: mushroom towns.
[Alteration (influenced by room) of Middle English musheron, from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum, from Old French mousseron, from Medieval Latin musari , musari n-.] |
mushroom Noun 1. an edible fungus consisting of a cap at the end of a stem 2. something resembling a mushroom in shape or rapid growth Verb to grow rapidly: consumer debt mushroomed rapidly in 1989 [Late Latin mussirio]
mushroom (m sh r m ) Any of various basidiomycete fungi whose mycelium produces a spore-dispersing body (called a basidioma) that usually consists of a stalk topped by a fleshy, often umbrella-shaped cap. Some species of mushrooms are edible, though many are poisonous. The term mushroom is often applied to the stalk and cap alone. See more at basidiomycete. | mushroom clockwise from top: chanterelle, yellow morel, King boletus, and shaggy mane mushrooms |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | mushroom - common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside toadstool - common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) | | 2. | mushroom - mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | | 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 myceliummorel - any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | | 4. | mushroom - a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)cloud - any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible | | 5. | mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungiveg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant stuffed mushroom - mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach | | Verb | 1. | mushroom - pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"cull, pick, pluck - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" | | 2. | mushroom - grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"grow - become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast" |
mushroom verb expand, increase, spread, boom, flourish, sprout, burgeon, spring up, shoot up, proliferate, luxuriate, grow rapidly
Translations mushroom [ˈmʌʃrum] n ( gen) → seta, hongo;
mushroom [ˈmʌʃrum] n → champignon m
mushroom [ˈmʌʃrum] n ( edible) → (essbarer) Pilz m;
mushroom [ˈmʌʃrum] n → fungo
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