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Mushroom
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- 1 Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture. attributive, not-comparable
"mushroom cloud"
- 1 Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
"Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul."
- 2 fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi wordnet
- 3 A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- 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) wordnet
- 5 Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
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- 6 any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium wordnet
- 7 Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- 8 mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) wordnet
- 9 A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
- 10 common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) wordnet
- 11 One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. figuratively, obsolete
"upstarts […]call in reproach mushrooms"
- 12 Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly. figuratively
"The craze [hula hoops] began in the U.S.A., and in October the boom crossed the Atlantic and 40 firms sprang into being, some being overnight mushrooms."
- 13 Ellipsis of mushroom cloud. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale. figuratively, intransitive
"The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years."
- 2 grow and spread fast wordnet
- 3 To gather mushrooms. intransitive
"We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend."
- 4 pick or gather mushrooms wordnet
- 5 To form the shape of a mushroom. intransitive
"Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld."
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- 6 To form the shape of a mushroom.; To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin. See Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). Doublet of moss and mousse.
From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin. See Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). Doublet of moss and mousse.
From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin. See Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). Doublet of moss and mousse.
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