mushroom

Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul.

Arabs consider the eating of mushrooms as an aphrodisiac aid.

A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.

Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.

A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.

Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.

mushroom cloud

To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.

The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.

In Beilu Village of Liucun Town in Yaodu District, Linfen, abnormal illnesses continued to emerge, as a result of clusters of highly-polluting enterprises mushrooming in the vicinity.

To gather mushrooms.

We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.

To form the shape of a mushroom.

Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

To form the shape of a mushroom.