mushroom
The definition of a mushroom is a quickly growing, fleshy fungus.
(noun)An example of a mushroom is a portabella.
Mushroom is defined as to hunt for edible mushrooms.
(verb)An example of mushroom is searching in the forest for chanterelles.
Mushroom is defined as something that is made of or resembles a mushroom.
(adjective)An example of mushroom is the shape of the smoke that rises from a large explosion; a mushroom cloud.
See mushroom in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- any of various rapidly growing, fleshy fungi, typically having a stalk capped with an umbrellalike top; esp., a gill or pore fungus
- the fruiting body of such a fungus
- an edible fruiting body of such a fungus
- anything like a mushroom in shape or rapid growth
Origin: ME muscheron < OFr moisseron < LL mussirio (gen. mussirionis)
adjective
- of or made with mushrooms
- like a mushroom in shape or rapid growth: a mushroom cloud
intransitive verb
- to hunt for and gather wild mushrooms
- to grow or spread rapidly
- to flatten out at the end so as to resemble a mushroom
See mushroom in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- Any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds, as those of the genus Agaricus.
- Something shaped like one of these fungi.
- To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly: The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.
- To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.
- Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms: mushroom sauce.
- Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence: mushroom towns.
Origin:
Origin: Alteration (influenced by room)
Origin: of Middle English musheron
Origin: , from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum
Origin: , from Old French mousseron
Origin: , from Medieval Latin musariō, musariōn-
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