mushroom has definitions from the fields of chemistry,food,botany
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[ noun ] a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

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cloud

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[ noun ] (botany) 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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basidiomycete morel

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[ noun ] (botany) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

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toadstool agaric

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[ verb ] grow and spread fast

Examples

"The problem mushroomed"

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grow

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[ verb ] pick or gather mushrooms

Examples

"We went mushrooming in the Fall"

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pick

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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

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vegetable stuffed_mushroom

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