Definitions for mushroom

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mushroom mush·room

Spelling: [muhsh-room, -roo m]

IPA: /ˈmʌʃ rum, -rʊm/

Mushroom is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in mushroom (hmmoorsu).

Definitions for mushroom

noun

1. any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
2. any of several edible species, especially of the family Agaricaceae, as Agaricus campestris (meadow mushroom or field mushroom) cultivated for food in the U.S.
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, especially a nuclear explosion.

adjective

1. of, consisting of, or containing mushrooms:
2. resembling a mushroom in shape or form.
3. of rapid growth and often brief duration:

verb (used without object)

1. to spread, grow, or develop quickly.
2. to gather mushrooms.
3. to have or assume the shape of a mushroom.

Origin of mushroom

1350-1400; alteration (by folk etymology) of Middle English muscheron, musseroun Middle French mousseron ≪ Late Latin mussiriōn-, stem of mussiriō

Examples for mushroom

If you could have a mushroom granola bar a half-hour before you work out, well, that would be ideal.

The spores are the seeds or reproductive bodies of the mushroom.

Essence of anchovy is made sometimes with sherry, or madeira, instead of water, or with the addition of mushroom ketchup.

After determining that the bee pollen and mushroom broth were inedible, the “detox” quickly went downhill.

Thicken the sauce with butter rolled in flour, season it with pepper and salt, essence of anchovy, and mushroom ketchup.

They are specifically designed to ‘flatten out and mushroom’ when striking human tissue, and are intended to cause maximum damage.

For Iraq, it was the WMDs and the mushroom clouds (and yes, they were lies, people, not intelligence failures).

This mushroom is especially free from grubs and it can be dried for winter use.

Then a 20-story-high mushroom cloud of smoke came rolling up the street toward us.

Love that grows like a mushroom lasts about as long—only I don't call it love!