What is the meaning of mushroom?

noun

  • Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool. )
  • Mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.. )
  • Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium.
  • A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb.
  • Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.

verb

  • Pick or gather mushrooms.
    • usage: "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
  • Grow and spread fast.
    • usage: "The problem mushroomed"
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