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Meaning of mushroom

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mushroom
      n 1: common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the
           inedible toadstool) [ant: {toadstool}]
      2: mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools,
         puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
      3: any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
         consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an
         underground mycelium
      4: a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and
         rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a
         nuclear bomb) [syn: {mushroom}, {mushroom cloud}, {mushroom-
         shaped cloud}]
      5: fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
      v 1: pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
      2: grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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