Mushroom

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

Derived terms

 * magic mushroom
 * mushroom cloud
 * straw mushroom

Adjective

 * 1) Containing or being made of mushrooms.
 * mushroom soup
 * 1) Resembling a mushroom by shape or appearance.
 * mushroom cloud

Verb

 * 1)  To grow quickly to a large size.
 * The town’s poplulation mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.
 * 1) To gather mushrooms.

Thesaurus
Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae, algae, autophyte, ball, balloon, bead, bean, blossom, blow up, bracken, brew, brown algae, burgeon, burst, climber, conferva, confervoid, conglobulate, creeper, detonate, develop, diatom, fern, flourish, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungi, fungus, gather, germinate, globe, go off, grapevine, green algae, grow, grow up, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, hypertrophy, increase, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mature, mold, molds, moss, newly-rich, nouveau-riche, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parasite, parasitic plant, parvenu, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, procreate, puffball, pullulate, pulse, red algae, reproduce, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, shoot up, smut, snowball, sphere, spherify, spring up, sprout, sprout up, succulent, thallogens, thrive, toadstool, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, upstart, vegetate, vetch, vine, wax, wort, wrack

Etymology
musheron, musseron, from mousseron, from  mussiriōnem, musariōnem, accusative of mussiriō, musariō "mushroom", from Old French mousse "moss" (—first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss), of  origin, from Low  *undefined: or  mosa "moss", both from  from. Akin to mos "moss, bog", Old High German mios "moss, mire", mēos "moss", Old English mōs "bog, marsh", mosi "moss", Old Norse myrr "bog, mire". Replaced native swamm "mushroom" from Old English. More at mire

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Albanian: kërpudhë
 * Arabic: (fuTr)
 * Armenian: (sunk)
 * Azeri: göbələk
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: perretxiko
 * Belarusian: грыб
 * Bengali: ছত্রাক
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: гъба (găba)
 * Catalan: bolet, fong
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 蘑菇 (mógū)
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: панго (pango)
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: sieni, itiöemä (mycology term)
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: cogomelo
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: μανιτάρι
 * Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: qsamta
 * Hawaiian: kūkaelio
 * Hebrew: פטרייה
 * Hindi: अहिच्छत्रक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , (kinoko)
 * Kalmyk: ,
 * Kapampangan:
 * Karachay-Balkar:, ,
 * Karakalpak: ,
 * Kazakh: ,
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: (pseut)
 * Korean: 버섯 (beoseot)
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: печурка (péčurka)
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: faqqiegħa
 * Manx: fliughane
 * Minangkabau: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: wazhashkwedo, wazhashkwedoons
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: svamper (Eastern dialect), sǫppr (Western dialect)
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, печурка
 * Roman: gljiva, pečurka
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian: funcia
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: uyoga (nc 11/10)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: занбӯруғ, қорч
 * Tamil: காளான்
 * Tatar: gömbä
 * Telugu: పుట్టగొడుగు (puTTagoDugu)
 * Thai: (hèt)
 * Tok Pisin: papai, talinga
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kömelek
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: qoʻziqorin, zamburugʻ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: madarchen
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: madarchen
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:


 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Manx: fliughane
 * Navajo:
 * Pashto: ,


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: грибница
 * Slovene: gliva
 * Swahili: kuvu (nc 9/10)
 * Thai: (hèt)

Adjective

 * Finnish: sieni-
 * German: Pilz-
 * Macedonian: печурков


 * Portuguese: de cogumelo
 * Russian: грибной


 * Finnish: sienimäinen, sieni-
 * Macedonian: печуркаст


 * Portuguese: em forma de cogumelo
 * Russian: грибовидный

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: wuchern
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Pilze ernten, Pilze sammeln


 * Macedonian: печуркари
 * Portuguese: colher cogumelos