mushroom
mush·room (mus̸h′ro̵̅o̅m′, -ro̵om′)
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
Etymology: 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
mushroom
n.
toadstool, fungus, champignon (French), truffle. Edible mushrooms include: morel, chanterelle, cremini, enoki, shiitake, portobello, porcini, puffball, earth star, honey, agaric, button, cèpe, meadow, Caesar's, fairy ring, shaggy mane, inky cap, oyster, parasol, golden clavaria, bear's head, hedgehog, angel trumpet, soft-skinned crepidotus, green russula, tan-colored russula, Mary russula, sheathed amanitopsis, large-sheathed amanitopsis, smooth lepiota, American lepiota.
Poisonous mushrooms or toadstools include: jack-my-lantern, fetid russula, fly agaric, death angel, death cup, amanita.
Converse of object
- slice: Add cream and brandy to pan when sliced mushrooms are cooked.
- chop: Also, black olives can be replaced with finely chopped button mushrooms.
Adjective modifier
- sauteed: Andrew tells me his favorite breakfast consists of sautéed field mushrooms among which an egg has been poached.
- magic: The last two years has seen a dramatic increase in the number of shops selling magic mushrooms from only a handful to over 400.
- edible: This type of fungus includes our familiar edible mushroom.
- hallucinogenic: The reason for the new laws is to stop the commercial sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
- wild: Do not feed wild mushrooms to people who don't want to eat them.
- grilled: Steak and chips 1 grilled rump steak with 75g low-fat oven chips, grilled mushrooms and salad with fat-free dressing.
Modifies a noun
- risotto: Alternatively try with roast beef, rack of lamb or wild mushroom risotto.
- stroganoff: A wild mushroom stroganoff, of ceps and cauliflower fungus, follows.
- bhaji: We began with onion bhaji ( £ 1.00 ), Potato bhaji ( £ 1.50 ), and mushroom bhaji ( £ 1.80 ).
- compost: We planted the tree in a mixture of bone meal and mushroom compost.
- mycelium: When the compost is ammonia free ( 5ppm ), spawning with mushroom mycelium can commence.
- pate: Seamus also likes a yeast spread, or mushroom pate spread on.
Noun used with modifier
- shiitake: In another area he has started to grow shiitake mushrooms under a graceful canopy, a living tunnel of woven willow trees.
- shitake: I had a terrine of confit chicken with shitake mushrooms, baby leeks and apple chutney.
- porcini: Everything from fish to fruit, vegetables, spices and dried porcini mushrooms is sold here.
- portobello: Two cards that lineman oregon guard portobello mushrooms so ionosphere can emit.
- oyster: Each cap is about 1cm across, much like small oyster mushrooms.
- psilocybin: Powell goes on to look at the evidence that the Maya also used psilocybin mushrooms.
I ama mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
Our motto: Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
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