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mushroom   (TTS Sound)

The noun mushroom has 5 senses

• mushroom -- (common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool))


• mushroom -- (mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.))


• 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)


• mushroom, mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud -- (a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb))


• mushroom -- (fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi)

The verb mushroom has 2 senses

• mushroom -- (pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall")


• mushroom -- (grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed")