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English noun: mushroom | |||
| 1. | mushroom (plant) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agaric | ||
| Antonyms | toadstool | ||
| 2. | mushroom (plant) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agaric | ||
| 3. | mushroom (plant) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | morel | ||
| 4. | mushroom (phenomenon) 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 cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cloud | ||
| 5. | mushroom (food) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | veg, vegetable, veggie | ||
| Part meronym | stuffed mushroom | ||
English verb: mushroom | |||
| 1. | mushroom (contact) pick or gather mushrooms | ||
| Samples | We went mushrooming in the Fall. | ||
| Examples | In the summer they like to go out and mushroom | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cull, pick, pluck | ||
| 2. | mushroom (change) grow and spread fast | ||
| Samples | The problem mushroomed. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grow | ||
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