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Mushroom

noun

Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible 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

... is the heritage of an honest and long established industry. It is seventy-five per cent of its capital. It is entirely beyond the reach of the mushroom agency, which in consequence has to accept less desirable retainers involving no such requirements, or go to the wall. The collection of photographs is almost priceless and the clippings, letters, and memoranda in the ...

— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train

... to keep their money in their pockets, and to read the papers read in that room, must have seen that there was a constant steady advance in scientific knowledge of the laws of electricity and in their practical applications, and as soon as some of these rotten, mushroom companies had been wiped out of existence, they might hope that real practical progress would be made, and that the day was not far distant when the public would again acquire confidence in electrical enterprise. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various

... a special disease of the hair and beard, due to the presence in the epidermis of a kind of mushroom. Well, it is probable ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... giving me just time to hold well ahead of him and fire. At the report he went down in a heap, the "umbrella-pointed" bullet going in at one shoulder, and ranging forward, breaking the neck. The leaden portion of the bullet, in the proper mushroom or umbrella shape, stopped under the neck skin on the farther side. It is a ...

— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... bullet was removed from the cloth it was said to have looked like a mushroom, the end that had first touched the cloth ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

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