mushroom

Meaning

Noun

1. Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
2. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
3. Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
4. Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
5. A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
6. (obsolete) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
7. Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
8. Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.

Adj

Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.

Verb

1. To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
2. To gather mushrooms.
3. To form the shape of a mushroom.
4. To form the shape of a mushroom.

Concepts

mushroom

fungus

toadstool

champignon

fungi

mushroom cloud

mushroom-shaped cloud

tree fungus

white mushroom

engulf

toad-stool

grow quickly

spread rapidly

anise

barleria Longifolia

resembling testicles

boletus

upstart

grow

agaric

round mushroom

button mushroom

spring up like mushrooms

balloon

bloat

crescendo

distend

puff

snowball

spread out

swell

swell up

tumesce

basidiocarp

mold

mould

bowl cut

mushroom cut

helmet haircut

pot haircut

edible mushroom

straw mushroom

fung

calimocho

cryptogam

cork

lichen

Hyphenated as

mush‧room

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/

Etymology

From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native Old English swamm. More at mire. Alternatively, the Old French may be of pre-Roman origin. See Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). Doublet of moss and mousse.