Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: mushroom, mushroom-shaped_cloud, mushroom_cloud

'mushroom'

[mushroom.n.01] as in: common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

'mushroom'

[mushroom.n.02] as in: mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)

'mushroom'

[mushroom.n.03] as in: any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

'mushroom'

[mushroom.n.04] as in: a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

'mushroom'

[mushroom.n.05] as in: fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

'mushroom'

[mushroom.v.01] as in: pick or gather mushrooms

Examples:
We went mushrooming in the Fall

'mushroom'

[mushroom.v.02] as in: grow and spread fast

Examples:
The problem mushroomed

Origins

					mushroom (English)
└── musheron (Middle English (1100-1500))