mushroom

Definitions

1. 1noun

   An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

2. 2noun

   Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.

3. 3noun

   One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

4. 4adjective

   Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

5. 5adjective

   Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

6. 6noun

   fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

7. 7noun

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

8. 8noun

   any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

9. 9noun

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

10. 10noun

    common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

11. 11verb

    grow and spread fast

    "The problem mushroomed"

12. 12verb

    pick or gather mushrooms

    "We went mushrooming in the Fall"