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mushroom
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
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
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