Mushroom — Mush room, a. 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. [1913 Webster] 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. [1913 Webster] {Mushroom anchor}, an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Mushroom — Chanson par Can extrait de l’album Tago Mago Pays Allemagne Sortie 1971 … Wikipédia en Français
mushroom — [mush′ro͞om΄, mush′room΄] n. [ME muscheron < OFr moisseron < LL mussirio (gen. mussirionis)] 1. a) any of various rapidly growing, fleshy fungi, typically having a stalk capped with an umbrellalike top; esp., a gill or pore fungus b) the… … English World dictionary
mushroom — mush‧room [ˈmʌʆruːm, rʊm] verb [intransitive] to develop very quickly: • Cable has mushroomed into a giant industry. mushrooming adjective : • the mushrooming private business sector * * * mushroom UK US /ˈmʌʃruːm/ verb [I] INFORMAL … Financial and business terms
Mushroom — Mush room, n. [OE. muscheron, OF. mouscheron, F. mousseron; perhaps fr. mousse moss, of German origin. See {Moss}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) An edible fungus ({Agaricus campestris}), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mushroom — mush room, v. i. 1. to grow or expand rapidly. [PJC] 2. to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full blown war. [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mushroom — index proliferate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
mushroom — [v] sprout; grow quickly augment, blow up, boom, burgeon, burst, detonate, expand, explode, flourish, go off, grow, grow rapidly, increase, luxuriate, proliferate, shoot up, spread, spring up; concepts 179,704 Ant. shrink, shrivel … New thesaurus
mushroom — ► NOUN 1) a spore producing body of a fungus, typically having the form of a domed cap at the top of a stalk and often edible. 2) a pale pinkish brown colour. ► VERB ▪ increase or develop rapidly. ORIGIN Old French mousseron … English terms dictionary
Mushroom — The mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric A mushroom is the fleshy, spore bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated… … Wikipedia
