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# mushroom

noun (a mushroom, mushrooms); verb (mushroom, mushrooms, mushroomed, mushrooming)

«mushroom» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A mushroom is a fungus with a stalk and a round cap; some kinds are eaten as food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m1)
2. To mushroom means to grow or spread very fast: New houses mushroomed in the town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m2)
3. A mushroom can also be a round, mushroom-shaped stopper, used to plug a hole. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science, mushrooms are not plants; they are fungi, which do not make their own food from sunlight but feed on rotting things, and they spread by spores. In safety lessons: never eat wild mushrooms, because some are very poisonous and look like safe ones; only eat mushrooms from a shop. Phrases: mushroom soup, button mushroom, wild mushrooms, mushroom cloud.

### Examples

- We had mushroom soup for lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x1)
- Never pick and eat wild mushrooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x2)
- Mushrooms grow in damp, dark places. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x3)
- A mushroom is a kind of fungus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x4)
- Some mushrooms are poisonous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x5)
- There were mushrooms growing on the old log. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x6)
- Mushrooms spread by tiny spores. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x7)
- The town mushroomed into a city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x8)
- It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x9)

### Note

Countable. One word. Mushrooms are fungi, not vegetables or plants, even though they are sold with vegetables. A toadstool usually means a mushroom that is poisonous or not eaten.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mushroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mushroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mushroom.html) on Mova free.