mushroom
adjective
1. Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
- mushroom cloud
noun
1. common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
Definition categories: plant, agaric
2. mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
Definition categories: plant, agaric
3. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
Definition categories: plant, basidiomycete
4. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
Definition categories: phenomenon, cloud
5. fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
Definition categories: food, veg, vegetable, veggie
Sentences with mushroom as a noun:
- Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul.
verb
1. pick or gather mushrooms
- We went mushrooming in the Fall
Definition categories: contact, cull, pick, pluck
2. grow and spread fast
- The problem mushroomed
Definition categories: change, grow
Sentences with mushroom as a verb:
- The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.
- We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.