Mushroom
['mʌʃruːm;-rʊm] or ['mʌʃrʊm]
Definition
(noun.) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.
(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).
(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.) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.).
(noun.) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool).
(verb.) grow and spread fast; 'The problem mushroomed'.
(verb.) pick or gather mushrooms; 'We went mushrooming in the Fall'.
Editor: Vanessa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
(n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
(a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
(a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
Editor: Monica
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cryptogamous plant.[2]. Upstart, PARVENU.
a. Ephemeral, short-lived.
Editor: Margaret
Definition
n. the common name of certain fungi esp. such as are edible: (fig.) one who rises suddenly from a low condition: an upstart.—n. Mush′room-spawn the substance in which the reproductive mycelium of the mushroom is embodied.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see mushrooms in your dreams, denotes unhealthy desires, and unwise haste in amassing wealth, as it may vanish in law suits and vain pleasures. To eat them, signifies humiliation and disgraceful love. For a young woman to dream of them, foretells her defiance of propriety in her pursuit of foolish pleasures.
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Examples
- Mr Podsnap could tolerate taste in a mushroom man who stood in need of that sort of thing, but was far above it himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Great pleasure--not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms- -capital thing! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There are many mushrooms now and it seemed to me we might as well eat the hares although they would be better tomorrow or the day after. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nobody commented, any more than they would have commented on the fact of mushrooms coming in autumn or snowdrops in spring. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Gillian