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(verb) grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed" |
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Related Words: grow |
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(verb) pick or gather mushrooms; "We went musrooming in the Fall" |
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Related Words: cull, pick, pluck |
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(noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi |
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Related Words: vegetable, veggie |
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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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Synonyms: mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud |
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Related Words: cloud |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi, morel |
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(noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) |
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Related Words: agaric |
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Antonyms: toadstool |
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