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mushroom

noun

1 mushroom

Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool).

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; ... show more

Roget 734: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence etc. (wealth) 803; success etc. 731; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, ... show more

Roget 123: newness etc. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity; youth etc. 127; gloss of novelty.    innovation; renovation etc. (restoration) ... show more

Polish: twór grzybniowy, owocnik

2 mushroom

Mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.).

Polish: twór grzybniowy, owocnik

3 mushroom

Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium.

Dutch: paddestoel

4 mushroom

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.

Dutch: paddenstoelwolk
Polish: grzyb atomowy

5 mushroom

Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.

Dutch: paddenstoel, op het puntje van zijn tong, zwam
Polish: grzybek

verb

1 mushroom

Pick or gather mushrooms.

2 mushroom

Grow and spread fast.

Dutch: verduizendvoudigen


adjective

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, algae, autophyte, ball, balloon, bead, bean, blossom, blow up, bracken, brew, brown algae, burgeon, burst, climber, conferva, confervoid, conglobulate, creeper ... show more.

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