Definition of mushroom Mushroom

/mʌˈʃɹum/ - [mushrum] - mush•room

We found 26 definitions of mushroom from 7 different sources.

What does mushroom mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: mushrooms
mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
		veg, veggie, vegetable 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
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
mushroom - any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
		basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
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)
		mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
mushroom - mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
Verb mushrooms, mushrooming, mushroomed
mushroom - pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
		cull, pluck, pick remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"
mushroom - grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"
		grow come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"

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Wiktionary

mushroom (Noun)
Any of the fleshy fruiting fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources such as decaying wood.
mushroom (Noun)
A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
mushroom (Noun)
champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
mushroom (Noun)
One of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards .
mushroom (Noun)
One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
mushroom (Verb)
To grow quickly to a large size.
mushroom (Verb)
To gather mushrooms.
mushroom (Verb)
Of a bullet To form the shape of a mushroom when a bullet impacts a soft target.
mushroom (Adjective)
Containing or being made of mushrooms.
mushroom (Adjective)
Resembling a mushroom by shape or appearance.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

mushroom (n.)
An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
mushroom (n.)
Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
mushroom (n.)
One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
mushroom (a.)
Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
mushroom (a.)
Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

mushroom
An organism belonging to a family of Basidiomycetes that are characterized by the production of spores on gills.

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

mushroom
A person or family suddenly raised to riches and eminence: an allusion to that fungus, which starts up in a night.

Wikipedia

A mushroom is the fruiting body of a kind of fungus. A toadstool is a poisonous mushroom.

Kinds of mushrooms.

It is hard to pick mushrooms in the wild, because most mushrooms have "look-alikes". Mushroom hunters learn how to tell these look-alikes apart, usually by chemical features. Edible mushrooms are used in cooking in many cultures and are usually grown in farms. In some places in the world, people learn already in childhood to recognize the edible and delicious mushrooms in the wild.

Structure of mushrooms.

Most mushrooms have a stem and a cap. The bottom of the cap sometimes has gills to hold spores, and sometimes holds the spores themselves.

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mushroom, verb, present, 1st person singular of mushroom (infinitive).
mushroom, verb (infinitive).
mushroom, noun, singular of mushrooms.

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Definition of mushroom Mushroom

What does mushroom mean?

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