Noun
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fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
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a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- mushroom cloud - mushroom shaped cloud -
any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
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mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
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common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
Verb
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grow and spread fast
"The problem mushroomed"
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pick or gather mushrooms
"We went mushrooming in the Fall"