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nouna large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
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nounany of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground myceliumtype of:
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nouncommon name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)Opposite:type of:
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nounfleshy body of any of numerous edible fungipart of:
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"The problem mushroomed"verbgrow and spread fasttype of:
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nounmushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)type of:
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"We went mushrooming in the Fall"verbpick or gather mushrooms
Examples of mushroom
- "The problem mushroomed"
- "We went mushrooming in the Fall"