| NOUN | plant | mushroom | common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) |
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| plant | mushroom | mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | |
| plant | mushroom | any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | |
| phenomenon | mushroom, mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud | a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom / mushroom / mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | |
| food | mushroom | fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | |
| VERB | contact | mushroom | pick or gather mushrooms |
| change | mushroom | grow and spread fast |
| Sounds | mah'shruwm | |
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| Rhymes | abloom ... zoom: 56 rhymes with uwm... | |
| Meaning | Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool). | |
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| Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
| Opposite | toadstool | Common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) |
| Verbs | mushroom | pick or gather mushrooms |
| Meaning | Mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.). | |
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| Broader | agaric | A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside |
| Spanish | seta | |
| Meaning | Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium. | |
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| Narrower | morel | Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap |
| Broader | basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi | Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota |
| Spanish | seta | |
| Catalan | bolet | |
| Meaning | A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom / mushroom / mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb). | |
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| Synonyms | mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud | |
| Broader | cloud | Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible |
| Spanish | nube de hongo | |
| Meaning | fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi. | |
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| Part of | stuffed mushroom | mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures / mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach |
| Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
| Spanish | hongo, seta | |
| Catalan | bolet, fong | |
| Verbs | mushroom | pick or gather mushrooms |
| Meaning | pick or gather mushrooms. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and mushroom | |
| Example | "We went mushrooming in the Fall" | |
| Broader | pick, pluck, cull | look for and gather |
| Spanish | buscar setas | |
| Catalan | buscar bolets | |
| Nouns | mushroom | fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi |
| mushroom | common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | |
| Meaning | Grow and spread fast. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The problem mushroomed" | |
| Broader | grow | Become larger / larger, greater, or bigger |
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