mushroom
Meanings
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- pick or gather mushrooms;
- "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
- grow and spread fast;
- "The problem mushroomed"
- MUSHROOM v -ED, -ING, -S to grow or spread rapidly
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
mushroom is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmushroom is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mushroom is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
mushroom is a valid Words With Friends word