MUSHROOM

/ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/ ► audio Scrabble 15 Words With Friends 17

Definition

verb pick or gather mushrooms.
verb grow and spread fast.
noun common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool).
noun mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.).
noun any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium.
noun a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb). — synonyms: mushroom_cloud, mushroom-shaped_cloud
noun fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.

“Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul.”
“The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.”
“We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.”