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 Definition of 'mushroom'

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1. (noun) mushroom
common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)


2. (noun) mushroom
mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)


3. (noun) 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


4. (noun) mushroom, mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)


5. (noun) mushroom
fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi


6. (verb) mushroom
pick or gather mushrooms
"We went mushrooming in the Fall"

7. (verb) mushroom
grow and spread fast
"The problem mushroomed"
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