Defenition of the word mushroom
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Defenition of the word mushroom
- An organism belonging to a family of Basidiomycetes that are characterized by the production of spores on gills.
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"
- pick or gather mushrooms; "We went musrooming in the Fall"
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- grow and spread fast
- pick or gather mushrooms
Synonyms for the word mushroom
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- burgeon
- expand
- flourish
- grow rapidly
- increase rapidly
- mushroom cloud
- mushroom-shaped cloud
- proliferate
- spread out
- swell
- thrive
Similar words in the mushroom
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- mushroom
- mushroom's
- mushroomed
- mushrooming
- mushrooms
Meronymys for the word mushroom
Hyponyms for the word mushroom
Hypernyms for the word mushroom
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- agaric
- basidiomycete
- basidiomycetous fungi
- cloud
- cull
- grow
- pick
- pluck
- veg
- vegetable
- veggie
Antonyms for the word mushroom
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