mushroom
IPA: mˈʌʃrum
noun
- Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
- Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
- (obsolete, figurative) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
- (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
- Ellipsis of mushroom cloud. [A large cloud of smoke, flame and debris that rises into the sky as a result of a large explosion, especially after a nuclear explosion, characterized by a long shaft rising from the ground into a much-larger or more-spread-out top, reminiscent of a mushroom in shape.]
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- To gather mushrooms.
- To form the shape of a mushroom.
- (ballistics, of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.
adjective
- Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
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Examples of "mushroom" in Sentences
- Mushrooms sicken pets.
- The mushroom is white, thick and firm.
- Mushrooms and fungi are on the shady side.
- The color of the mushroom is white to cream.
- The mushroom cloud was adopted in the 1970s.
- She eats the mushrooms and proceeds to mutate.
- It is good steamed, sauteed, or simmered mushrooms.
- Both the odor and the taste of this mushroom are nondescript.
- The oyster mushroom is one of the few known carnivorous mushrooms.
- The oyster mushroom is also one of the few known carnivorous mushrooms.