How to pronounce “mushroom”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
• A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
• Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
• Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
• (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
• (obsolete, figurative) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
• (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
• Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
• [Adjective]
• (attributive) Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
• (intransitive) To gather mushrooms.
• (intransitive) To form the shape of a mushroom.

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