mushrooms

v. gather mushrooms; sprout up rapidly like mushrooms, develop at a great pace

n. any of numerous types of fungi that have short thick stems and cap-like tops (of which some are highly poisonous and some are edible)

A Mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of fungus typically produced above ground on soil or on their food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (called a stipe), a cap (called a pileus), and gills (each called a lamella/pl. lamellae) on the underside of the cap just as do store-bought white mushrooms. However, mushrooms can also be a wide variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally to describe both fleshy fruitbodies of some Ascomycota and woody or leathery fruitbodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the usage. Usually forms deviating from the standard form have more specific names, such as puffballs, stinkhorn, morels, etc. and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called agarics, in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or placement in the order Agaricales. By extension, mushroom can also designate the entire fungus when in culture or when referring to the whole thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming fruitbodies called mushrooms.
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Noun
1. common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
(antonym) toadstool
(hypernym) agaric
2. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
(hypernym) basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi
(hyponym) morel
3. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
(synonym) mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
(hypernym) cloud
4. fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
(hypernym) vegetable, veggie
(part-holonym) stuffed mushroom
Verb
1. pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall"
(hypernym) pick, pluck, cull
2. grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"
(hypernym) grow

Amount per 100g:
• Calories.......................25
• Total Fat......................0 g
• Saturated Fat.................0 g
• Cholesterol..................0 mg
• Sodium........................4 mg
• Total Carbohydrate......5 g
• Dietary Fiber...................1 g
• Protein.........................2 g Vitamin A  0 IU   Vitamin C  4 mg
 Calcium    5 mg    Iron         1 mg