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mushrooms

mushrooms is the plural of mushroom.

mushrooms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mushroom.

Meaning of mushroom

Noun

mushroom (plural mushrooms)

  1. Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
    • Some mushrooms are edible whereas others are poisonous, and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.
    Synonyms:
    shroom, mushrump
  2. A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
  3. Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
  4. Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
  5. A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
  6. (figuratively, obsolete) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
    • upstarts […]call in reproach mushrooms1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...

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Phrases with mushrooms

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Questions about mushrooms

What is mushrooms the plural of?
Mushrooms is the plural of mushroom.

Words near mushrooms in the dictionary

  1. mushrooming
  2. mushroomings
  3. mushroomless
  4. mushroomlike
  5. mushroomoid
  6. mushrooms
  7. mushroomy
  8. mushroon
  9. mushroons
  10. mushroos
  11. mushru

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