Mushroom

Quick meaning: Mushroom is a noun meaning Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

Meaning

Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

More Meanings

1. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
2. Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
3. Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
4. (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
5. (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
6. Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
7. (obsolete, figurative) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

Example Sentences

mushroom cloud

upstarts […]call in reproach mushrooms

Arabs consider the eating of mushrooms as an aphrodisiac aid.

The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.

Word Forms

• mushrooms
• mushrooming
• mushroomed

Synonyms for mushroom

Depending on context, synonyms include mushrump, shroom.

Antonyms for mushroom

Common opposites include toadstool.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include morel, agaric, fungus, fungal, tyrosinase, fungi.

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