mushroom
1. common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
• Ant:
toadstool
• Hypernyms:
agaric
2. mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
• Hypernyms:
agaric
3. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
• Hypernyms:
basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi
• Hyponyms:
morel
4. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
• Syn:
mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
• Hypernyms:
cloud
5. fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
• Hypernyms:
vegetable, veggie, veg
• Part Holonyms:
stuffed mushroom
1. pick or gather mushrooms
- We went mushrooming in the Fall
• Hypernyms:
pick, pluck, cull
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and mushroom
2. grow and spread fast
- The problem mushroomed
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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