Mushroom

Definition: Mushroom

Mushroom

Noun

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

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

3. A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb).

4. Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.

Verb

1. Pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall".

2. Grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mushroom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

Weather

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mushroom

Commonalty

Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.

Plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure,plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled.

Newness

Modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.

Prosperity

Upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom.

Vegetable

Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

Crosswords: Mushroom

Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I ate the mushroom and I dance with the queen (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith)

A magic mushroom cloud of care (I Did It; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And you've just had some kind of mushroom (White Rabbit; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

Set off the mighty mushroom roar (I Ain't Marching Anymore; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

The Satin Mushroom (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mushroom in the Rain (reference)

• Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts (reference)

• Shiitake Growers Handbook: The Art and Science of Mushroom Cultivation (reference)

• Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (reference)

• The Mushroom Lover's Mushroom Cookbook and Primer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• International Society Of Mushroom Science Newsletter (reference)

• Mushroom (reference)

• Mushroom Journal (reference)

• Mushroom News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 45: The Mushroom Teremok, Bremen's Musicians, Following Bremen's Musicians, Cat Who Knew How to Sing, Cat and Boots (reference)

• Cowboy Bebop - Mushroom Samba (Vol. 9) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mushroom Jazz 4 (reference)

• Mushroom Jazz, Vol. 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• William Bounds Cherry Mushroom Salt Mill (reference)

• Amerock 933 1-1/4" Wood Mushroom Knob (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Time for a little fun Climbing a mushroom coral rock FATHOMER in background offshore. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

John Magagna, NRCS Soil Conservationist, and a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer, discuss the composting process used to create a growing medium for mushrooms. Mushrooms are the largest cash crop in Pennsylvania. [Slide 97CS3110]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Spores released from the fan-shaped basidiocarp of this inch-wide Crinipellis perniciosa mushroom can infect cacao trees and drastically reduce yields of the beans from which cocoa and chocolate products are made. Photo Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Ramaria stuntzii, commonly known as the Coral Mushroom. Credit: Thom O'Dell.

Mushroom laying on what looks like a sheet. Credit: Unknown.

Medium shot of coral mushroom (Ramaria stuntzii). Credit: Thom O'Dell.

[Christmas Island, several men standing with mushroom cloud in background]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Plants. Mushroom in tree. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mushroom Park #1, Garden of the Gods, Col. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mushroom cloud. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Preparations that have been claimed to have benefit to CFS patients include astralagus, borage seed oil, bromelain, comfrey, echinacea, garlic, Ginkgo biloba, ginseng, primrose oil, quercetin, St. John's wort, and Shiitake mushroom extract. (references)

Business

With the mushroom growth of this industry, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) is keen on improving the standard of IT education in the country. (references)

Whereas in the private sector institutions that are not registered with the UGC, growth has been 150%. The increase in the demand for IT institutions and the inability of existing in stitutions to cater to this need has resulted in the mushroom growth of private colleges giving computer education. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Their numbers are declining, as convenience stores, self-service discount stores, and "superstores" mushroom. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "mushroom": blushing mushroom ♦ brain mushroom ♦ button mushroom ♦ chinese black mushroom ♦ chinese mushroom ♦ darning mushroom ♦ deer mushroom ♦ field mushroom ♦ Fischer's slime mushroom ♦ golden oak mushroom ♦ green mushroom pimple ♦ honey mushroom ♦ horse mushroom ♦ magic mushroom ♦ meadow mushroom ♦ miter mushroom ♦ mushroom anchor ♦ mushroom cloud ♦ mushroom coral ♦ mushroom gatherer ♦ mushroom grower's lung ♦ mushroom growth ♦ mushroom ketchup ♦ mushroom picker's lung ♦ mushroom pimple ♦ Mushroom Poisoning ♦ mushroom sauce ♦ mushroom spawn ♦ mushroom town ♦ mushroom win sauce ♦ mushroom worker's lung ♦ mushroom worker's pneumonitis ♦ orange mushroom pimple ♦ oriental black mushroom ♦ oyster mushroom ♦ parasol mushroom ♦ pine mushroom ♦ pore mushroom ♦ roof mushroom ♦ sacred mushroom ♦ sandy mushroom ♦ shaggymane mushroom ♦ shiitake mushroom ♦ slime mushroom ♦ snow mushroom ♦ sponge mushroom ♦ straw mushroom ♦ stuffed mushroom ♦ swadust mushroom ♦ viscid mushroom ♦ white slime mushroom ♦ winter mushroom. Additional references.

Beginning with "mushroom": mushroom-and-tofu, mushroom-coloured, mushroom-cream, mushroom-filled, mushroom-flavoured, Mushroom-headed, mushroom-hunting, mushroom-like, mushroom-painted, mushroom-shape, mushroom-shaped, mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom-style, mushroom-worker's.

Ending with "mushroom": duck-and-mushroom, fairy-mushroom, morel-mushroom.

Albanian

ndërtësë e re, kopelë femërore, këpurdhë (fungus, toadstool). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطر (breakfast, champignon, fungus), ‏نما بسرعة كالفطر, ‏نبت فجأة, ‏تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll). (various references)

Aymara

q'allampa. (various references)

Basque

perretxiko. (various references)

Bavarian

schwammal (fungus), schampignon. (various references)

Blackfoot

kakató'si. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам гъби, раста като гъба, разпространявам се бързо, ширя се, който расте бързо, гъба (agaric, fungus, sponge, toadstool), нещо наподобяващо гъба, бързо израснал човек, бързо издигнал се човек, печурка (field mushroom), парвеню (bounder, outsider, parvenu, upstart, vulgarian). (various references)

Catalan

bolet (fungus). (various references)

Chamorro

payon duendes. (various references)

Chinese 

蘑菇 . (various references)

Cornish

scavel-cronek. (various references)

Czech

zbohatlík (profiteer, upstart), rùst jako houby po dešti, jedlá houba, šířit se ve tvaru hřibu. (various references)

Danish

svamp (fungus, sponge), champignon (champignon, cultivated mushroom, edible mushroom). (various references)

Dutch

champignon. (various references)

Esperanto

fungo (fungus), agariko, ŝampinjono, ĉampinjono. (various references)

Faeroese

soppur (fungus, sponge, tuft), hundaland (fungus). (various references)

Farsi 

قارچ , سماروغ , بسرعت ایجادکردن , بسرعت رویاندن . (various references)

Finnish

sieni (fungus, fungus mushroom, sponge, toadstool), herkkusieni. (various references)

French

champignon. (various references)

Frisian

poddestoel (fungus). (various references)

German

Pilz (fungi, fungus, Mold, toadstool), Champignon (champignon, cultivated mushroom, edible mushroom). (various references)

Greek 

μανιτάρι (champignon, cultivated mushroom, edible mushroom). (various references)

Hebrew 

לגדול מהר כפטריה, פטריה (agaric, fungus, mycete). (various references)

Hungarian

gomba (button, dome, fungus), gomba alakú tárgy, újgazdag (cocktail, nouveau rich, parvenu, upstart, vulgarian). (various references)

Indonesian

menjamur, jamur (fungus, mildew, toadstool), cendawan (fungus, mildew, moth, toadstool). (various references)

Italian

fungo (fungus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

マゼラン雲 (mac, machismo, Macintosh, Madagascar, madam killer, madame, Magellanic Clouds, maggeoli, mash, mashed potato, masochism, masochist, mass, massage, massive attack, mat, matador, match, match play, match point, match pomp, matching, material, maternity dress, -matic, matinee, Matterhorn, McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCulloch, muckraker, mug, mux). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

マッシュルーム . (various references)

Korean 

버섯. (various references)

Manx

shalmane (champignon), fliughane (champignon, liquid). (various references)

Norwegian

sopp (fungus). (various references)

Occitan

camparòl. (various references)

Papago

okstakud. (various references)

Papiamen

djipopo (fungus). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushroommay.(various references)

Portuguese

cogumelo (champignon, fungus). (various references)

Romanian

umbrelã (gingham, umbrella), parvenit (carpet knight, cocktail, nouveau riche, parvenu, squirt, upstart), creşte ca ciupercile, ciupercã de gunoi cultivatã, ciupercã comestibilã, ciupercã (toadstool, topper), bazidie, înmulţi ca ciupercile. (various references)

Romansch

bulieu. (various references)

Romany

papòohi. (various references)

Russian 

разрастаться гриб, шампиньон (champignon), гриб (boletus, darner, fungus), выскочка (beggar on horseback, cocktail, parvenu, upstart, vulgarian). (various references)

Sepedi

tlokwane. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pečurka (agaric, toadstoll), nicati kao gljiva, gljiva (fungus). (various references)

Shona

hwohwa. (various references)

Sicilian

funcia. (various references)

Spanish

seta (fungus), hongo (billycock, fungus), champiñon. (various references)

Sranan

todoprasoro (fungus). (various references)

Swedish

svamp (boletus, fungus, sponge), champinjon (champignon, meadow mushroom). (various references)

Turkish

mantar gibi çoğalmak, mantar (athlete's foot, blight, brand, Cork, Corky, fungal, fungoid, fungous, fungus, myco-), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), türemek (be derived, be reproduced, multiply, pullulate, spring up). (various references)

Turkmen 

kцmelek. (various references)

Ukrainian

рости як гриби, грибоподібний, гриб (fungal, fungus), збирати гриби, печериця. (various references)

boletus, fungi, fungus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mushroom": mushroomed, mushrooming, mushrooms. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mushroom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mahroof, makhdoom, mashroom, Mochrum, moshood, Mouscron, Muhoho, Mushirul, mushrome, mushroomm, mushroomy, Mushrow. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hommos, humors, mohurs.

-3 letters: homos, hours, humor, mohur, momus, moors, rooms.

-4 letters: homo, hour, hums, mhos, moms, moor, moos, mors, mosh, mums, mush, ohms, oohs, ours, rhos, rhus, roms, room, rums, rush, shmo, shoo, sour, sumo.

-5 letters: hmm, hum, mho, mom, moo, mor, mos, mum, mus, ohm, oho, ohs, oms, ooh, ors, our, rho.

+1 letter: mushrooms.

+2 letters: mushroomed.

+3 letters: motormouths, mushrooming.

+4 letters: automorphism.

+5 letters: automorphisms.