mushroom

• common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
• mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
• any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
• a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
• fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
• pick or gather mushrooms
• grow and spread fast
• An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn
• Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus
• One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life
• Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration

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