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Mushroom

noun

Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool). Antonym: 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). Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud.

Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.

verb

Pick or gather mushrooms.

Grow and spread fast.

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"Mushroom" Quotes from Famous Books

... dead, look down On smaller fry unworthy of the crown, Mere mushroom men, puff-balls that advertise And bravely think to brush the skies. Great is advertisement with little men! Moi, qui vous parle, L- G-ll—nn-, Have told them so; ...

— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman

... and in the still later {10} Klondike stampede, American cities at the coast benefited most. Victoria was a ten-hour trip from the mainland. Whatcom and Townsend, on the American side, advertised the advantages of the Washington route to the Fraser river gold-mines. A mushroom boom in town lots had sprung up at these points before Victoria was well awake. By the time speculators reached Victoria the best lots in that place had already been bought by the company's men; and some ...

— The Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia • Agnes C. Laut

... of wonders. The tiniest mushroom is as extraordinary and as worthy of study as the largest oak. Your father was fond ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... in Greece, when in Athens, the great forum of Socrates, in whom subjectivity of thought was brought to consciousness in a more definite and more thorough manner, now appeared. But Socrates did not grow like a mushroom out of the earth, for he extends in continuity with his time, and this is not only a most important figure in the history of philosophy—but perhaps also a ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... bomb-shell had fallen among them. Maria had closed her eyes again. Her face was calm as a cabbage, still as a mushroom in a storm. She claimed the entire discussion somehow as her own. Yet she had merely exercised her prerogative of being herself. Having gone into the root of the matter with a monosyllable, she retired again into her eternal centre. She had nothing ...

— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood

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