| Definitions | | mushroom |
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noun
- Any of the fleshy fruiting body, fruiting bodies of fungus, fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
Translations: - Dutch: paddenstoel , zwam
- French: champignon
- German: Pilz
- Italian: fungo
- Spanish: hongo , seta
verb
- (context, intransitive) To grow quickly to a large size.
- The town"s poplulation mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.
- To gather mushrooms.
Translations: adjective
- Containing or being made of mushrooms.
- soup
- Resembling a mushroom by shape or appearance.
- cloud
Translations: Etymology: Altered form of the Middle English musheron, musseron, from Old French mousseron, from Late Latin musario.
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