mushroom
/ˈmʌʃruːm/
verb
- To grow or spread rapidly.
- New restaurants have mushroomed across the city in the last year.
- Her interest in gardening mushroomed after she planted her first tomato.
- The small problem mushroomed into a major crisis overnight.
- To gather mushrooms from the wild.
- He mushroomed for hours but only found a few edible ones.
- Every autumn, they go mushrooming in the nearby woods.
- The family spent the afternoon mushrooming in the national park.
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noun
- A fungus with a stem and a cap, often edible, that grows in damp places.
- Mushroom soup is one of my favorite comfort foods.
- The chef sautéed the mushrooms with garlic and butter.
- She picked a wild mushroom in the forest but wasn't sure if it was safe to eat.
- Something that resembles a mushroom in shape, especially a cloud from a nuclear explosion.
- A huge mushroom cloud rose over the test site.
- The smoke formed a dark mushroom above the burning factory.
- The explosion created a perfect mushroom shape in the sky.