MUSHROOM

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem, a cap, and gills or pores on the underside of the cap.

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mushroom

Noun

  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. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
  3. champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
  4. One of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
  5. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

Verb

  1. To grow quickly to a large size.
    The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.
  2. To gather mushrooms.
  3. (Of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when a bullet impacts a soft target.

Adjective

  1. Containing or being made of mushrooms.
    mushroom soup
  2. Resembling a mushroom by shape or appearance.
    mushroom cloud


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