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like mushrooms

like mushrooms prepositional phrase: very quickly and in great quantity.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) Very quickly and in great quantity.

Words formed from like mushrooms

  • spring up like mushrooms

Questions about like mushrooms

What does like mushrooms mean?
Like mushrooms means very quickly and in great quantity.
What part of speech is like mushrooms?
Like mushrooms is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like mushrooms in the dictionary

  1. like magic
  2. like merry hell
  3. like molasses
  4. like molasses in January
  5. like mother, like daughter
  6. like mushrooms
  7. like new
  8. like no other
  9. like nobody else
  10. like nobody's business
  11. like nobody's watching

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