mushroom, n.
(mushrooms)
(mushrooms)
fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
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mushroom
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derivationally related form
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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mushroom mushroom cloud mushroom-shaped cloud
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hypernym
any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
<noun.plant>
mushroom
mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
<noun.plant>
mushroom
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hypernym
common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
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mushroom