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mush·room
(mŭsh′ro͞om′, -ro͝om′)n.
1.
a. Any of various fungi that produce a fleshy fruiting body, especially one consisting of a stalk with an umbrella-shaped cap.
b. Any of such fungi that are edible, especially the widely cultivated species Agaricus bisporus, which includes the button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms.
c. The usually aboveground fruiting body of any of such fungi.
d. One of these fruiting bodies that produce hallucinations when ingested. Also called magic mushroom.
2. Something shaped like one of these fungi.
intr.v. mush·roomed, mush·room·ing, mush·rooms
1. To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly: The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.
2. To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.
3. To collect wild mushrooms.
adj.
1. Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms: mushroom sauce.
2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence: mushroom towns.
[Alteration (influenced by room) of Middle English musheron, from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum, from Old French mousseron, from Medieval Latin musariō, musariōn-.]
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mushroom
(ˈmʌʃruːm; -rʊm)n
1. (Botany)
a. the fleshy spore-producing body of any of various basidiomycetous fungi, typically consisting of a cap (pileus) at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium. Some species, such as the field mushroom, are edible. Compare pileus, toadstool
b. (as modifier): mushroom soup.
2. (Botany) the fungus producing any of these structures
3.
a. something resembling a mushroom in shape or rapid growth
b. (as modifier): mushroom expansion.
vb (intr)
4. to grow rapidly: demand mushroomed overnight.
5. to assume a mushroom-like shape
6. (Agriculture) to gather mushrooms
[C15: from Old French mousseron, from Late Latin mussiriō, of obscure origin]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
mush•room
(ˈmʌʃ rum, -rʊm)n.
1. any of various fleshy fungi, including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, and morels.
3. anything of similar shape or correspondingly rapid growth.
4. a large, mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke or rubble, formed in the atmosphere as a result of an explosion, esp. a nuclear explosion.
v.i. 5. to spread, grow, or develop quickly.
6. to gather mushrooms.
7. to assume the shape of a mushroom.
[1560–65; alter. (by folk etym.) of late Middle English muscheron, musseroun < Middle French mousseron « Late Latin mussiriōn-, s. of mussiriō]
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mush·room
(mŭsh′ro͞om′) Any of various fungi having a stalk topped by a fleshy, often umbrella-shaped cap. Some mushrooms are edible; others are poisonous.
The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
mushroom
- mushroom - Before it was a mushroom, it was called either toadstool or funge, from Latin fungus; small mushrooms are called "buttons," medium-sized ones are "cups," and the largest are "flat" or "open" mushrooms.
- fly agaric - A mushroom with a narcotic juice that, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous.
- pileated - Etymologically means "capped," like a mushroom, but now refers to a bird with a crest on the top of the head from the bill to the nape.
- shiitake - Japanese for "evergreen beech, chinquapin" (shii) and "mushroom" (take).
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
mushroom
Past participle: mushroomed
Gerund: mushrooming
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| Noun | 1. |  mushroom - common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside toadstool - common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) |
| 2. | mushroom - mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside | |
| 3. | mushroom - any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota morel - any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | |
| 4. |  mushroom - a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)cloud - any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible | |
| 5. | mushroom - fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant stuffed mushroom - mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach | |
| Verb | 1. | mushroom - pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall" |
| 2. | mushroom - grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed" grow - become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast" |
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mushroom
verb expand, increase, spread, boom, flourish, sprout, burgeon, spring up, shoot up, proliferate, luxuriate, grow rapidly The media training industry has mushroomed over the last decade.
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
black truffle, blewit, button mushroom, cep or porcini, champignon, chanterelle, horn of plenty, meadow mushroom, morel, oyster mushroom, puffball, shaggy ink cap or lawyer's wig, shiitake mushroom, straw mushroom, white truffle, wood ear mushroomCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
mushroom
verbThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
عُشُّ الْغُرَابِفُطْريَتَكاثَر أو يَتَّسِع بِسُرْعَه
houbarychle se rozrůstat
champignonsvamp
seen
قارچ
sienipaisuasienestää
champignonchampignonner
gljiva
gombagomba módra szaporodik
jamur
sveppurstækka ört
キノコマッシュルーム茸
버섯
boletusfungus
augti kaip grybams po lietausgrybas
sēnestrauji augt
hubarýchlo sa rozrásť
goba
svampsopp
เห็ด
mantarmantar gibi çoğalmak
nấm
mushroom
[ˈmʌʃrʊm]A. N (Culin) (round-topped) → champiñón m; (flat-topped) → seta f (Bot) → seta f, hongo m, callampa f (Chile)
a great mushroom of smoke → un enorme hongo de humo
to grow like mushrooms → crecer como hongos
to spring up like mushrooms (fig) → surgir como hongos
a great mushroom of smoke → un enorme hongo de humo
to grow like mushrooms → crecer como hongos
to spring up like mushrooms (fig) → surgir como hongos
B. VI [town etc] → crecer vertiginosamente
the cloud of smoke went mushrooming up → una nube de humo ascendió en forma de hongo
the cloud of smoke went mushrooming up → una nube de humo ascendió en forma de hongo
C. CPD [salad, omelette etc] → de champiñones
mushroom cloud N → hongo m nuclear
mushroom growth N → crecimiento m vertiginoso
mushroom town N → ciudad f que crece vertiginosamente
mushroom cloud N → hongo m nuclear
mushroom growth N → crecimiento m vertiginoso
mushroom town N → ciudad f que crece vertiginosamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
mushroom
[ˈmʌʃruːm] n → champignon m
modif [soup, omelette, sauce] → aux champignons
vi (= grow) [town] → pousser comme un champignon; [population, costs] → augmenter rapidement; [company] → se développer rapidement; [number] → se multipliermushroom cloud n → champignon m atomique
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
mushroom
n → (essbarer) Pilz; (= button mushroom) → Champignon m; (= atomic mushroom) → Pilz m; a great mushroom of smoke → ein großer Rauchpilz; to spring up or sprout like mushrooms → wie die Pilze aus dem Boden schießen
attr
(made of mushrooms) → Pilz-, Champignon-; mushroom soup → Pilz- or Champignonsuppe f; mushroom farm → Pilzzuchtbetrieb m; mushroom-picker → Pilzsammler(in) m(f)
(= mushroom-shaped) → pilzförmig
(= rapid and ephemeral) growth → sprunghaft
vi
(= grow rapidly) → wie die Pilze aus dem Boden schießen; unemployment has mushroomed → die Arbeitslosigkeit ist explosionsartig angestiegen; to mushroom into something → sich rasch zu etw entwickeln
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
mushroom
[ˈmʌʃrum]1. n (Bot) → fungo
2. adj (soup, omelette) → ai or coi funghi; (flavour) → di funghi; (colour) → color beige rosato inv
3. vi
a. (town) → svilupparsi rapidamente; (houses) → spuntare come funghi
the cloud of smoke went mushrooming up → la nuvola di fumo si alzò prendendo la forma di un fungo
the cloud of smoke went mushrooming up → la nuvola di fumo si alzò prendendo la forma di un fungo
b. to go mushrooming → andare per funghi, andare a cercare funghi
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
mushroom
(ˈmaʃrum) noun a type of fungus, usually shaped like an umbrella, many varieties of which are edible.
verb to grow in size very rapidly. The town has mushroomed since all the new industry was brought in.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
mushroom
→ عُشُّ الْغُرَابِ houba champignon Pilz μανιτάρι champiñón sieni champignon gljiva fungo マッシュルーム 버섯 champignon sopp grzyb cogumelo гриб svamp เห็ด mantar nấm 蘑菇Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
mushroom
n. hongo, seta, champiñón;
___ poisoning → envenenamiento por ___ -s.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
mushroom
n (wild) hongo, seta; poisonous — hongo venenoso, seta venenosaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.