mushroom

CEFRB1

/ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A soft fungus with a rounded cap and short stem.

  2. 02

    verb

    To grow or increase very quickly.

Examples

  • This mushroom is not good to eat.

  • Tom had lamb chops, potatoes and mushroom soup for dinner.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /-ˌɹʊm/
  • /ˈmʌʃˌɹum/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

  2. Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.

  3. Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

More examples

In context

  • "Shiitake" is a sort of mushroom.

  • Some mushrooms are edible whereas others are poisonous, and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.

  • The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English muscheron, musseron, from Anglo-Norman musherum, moscheron, from Old French moisseron, of obscure origin: probably derived from Old French mosse, moise ("moss"; whence also French mousse), as the use first applied to a type of fungus which grows in moss, from Frankish *mosu (“moss”) or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), akin to Old High German mosa (“moor, swamp”), Old High German mos (“moss, bog”), Old High German mios (“moss, mire”), Old English mēos (“moss”), Old English mōs (“bog, marsh”), Old Norse mosi (“moss”), Old Norse myrr (“bog, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *musą, *musô, *miuziz (“mosses, bog”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“mosses, mold, mildew”). Displaced native...