Meaning of "mushroom" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUSHROOM

From Old French mousseron, from Late Latin mussiriō, of obscure origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MUSHROOM

mushroom  [ˈmʌʃruːm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUSHROOM

Mushroom is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mushroom in English.

WHAT DOES MUSHROOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its 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 those fungi that have a stem, a cap, and gills or pores on the underside of the cap. These pores or gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. "Mushroom" describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their place Agaricales.

Definition of mushroom in the English dictionary

The first definition of mushroom in the dictionary is the fungus producing any of these structures. Other definition of mushroom is something resembling a mushroom in shape or rapid growth. Mushroom is also to grow rapidly.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MUSHROOM

PRESENT

Present

I mushroom

you mushroom

he/she/it mushrooms

we mushroom

you mushroom

they mushroom

Present continuous

I am mushrooming

you are mushrooming

he/she/it is mushrooming

we are mushrooming

you are mushrooming

they are mushrooming

Present perfect

I have mushroomed

you have mushroomed

he/she/it has mushroomed

we have mushroomed

you have mushroomed

they have mushroomed

Present perfect continuous

I have been mushrooming

you have been mushrooming

he/she/it has been mushrooming

we have been mushrooming

you have been mushrooming

they have been mushrooming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I mushroomed

you mushroomed

he/she/it mushroomed

we mushroomed

you mushroomed

they mushroomed

Past continuous

I was mushrooming

you were mushrooming

he/she/it was mushrooming

we were mushrooming

you were mushrooming

they were mushrooming

Past perfect

I had mushroomed

you had mushroomed

he/she/it had mushroomed

we had mushroomed

you had mushroomed

they had mushroomed

Past perfect continuous

I had been mushrooming

you had been mushrooming

he/she/it had been mushrooming

we had been mushrooming

you had been mushrooming

they had been mushrooming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will mushroom

you will mushroom

he/she/it will mushroom

we will mushroom

you will mushroom

they will mushroom

Future continuous

I will be mushrooming

you will be mushrooming

he/she/it will be mushrooming

we will be mushrooming

you will be mushrooming

they will be mushrooming

Future perfect

I will have mushroomed

you will have mushroomed

he/she/it will have mushroomed

we will have mushroomed

you will have mushroomed

they will have mushroomed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been mushrooming

you will have been mushrooming

he/she/it will have been mushrooming

we will have been mushrooming

you will have been mushrooming

they will have been mushrooming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would mushroom

you would mushroom

he/she/it would mushroom

we would mushroom

you would mushroom

they would mushroom

Conditional continuous

I would be mushrooming

you would be mushrooming

he/she/it would be mushrooming

we would be mushrooming

you would be mushrooming

they would be mushrooming

Conditional perfect

I would have mushroom

you would have mushroom

he/she/it would have mushroom

we would have mushroom

you would have mushroom

they would have mushroom

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been mushrooming

you would have been mushrooming

he/she/it would have been mushrooming

we would have been mushrooming

you would have been mushrooming

they would have been mushrooming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you mushroom
we let´s mushroom
you mushroom

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to mushroom

Past participle

mushroomed

Present Participle

mushrooming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «MUSHROOM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mushroom» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of mushroom

boom · burgeon · expand · flourish · increase · luxuriate · proliferate · shoot up · spread · sprout

TRANSLATION OF MUSHROOM

Find out the translation of mushroom to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mushroom from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mushroom» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 蘑菇
• Translator English - Spanish: champiñón
• English: mushroom
• Translator English - Hindi: मशरूम
• Translator English - Arabic: عُشُّ الْغُرَابِ
• Translator English - Russian: гриб
• Translator English - Portuguese: cogumelo
• Translator English - Bengali: মাশরুম
• Translator English - French: champignon
• Translator English - Malay: Cendawan
• Translator English - German: Pilz
• Translator English - Japanese: マッシュルーム
• Translator English - Korean: 버섯
• Translator English - Javanese: Jamur
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nấm
• Translator English - Tamil: காளான்
• Translator English - Marathi: मशरूम
• Translator English - Turkish: mantar
• Translator English - Italian: fungo
• Translator English - Polish: grzyb
• Translator English - Ukrainian: гриб
• Translator English - Romanian: ciupercă
• Translator English - Greek: μανιτάρι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: sampioen
• Translator English - Swedish: svamp
• Translator English - Norwegian: sopp

10 QUOTES WITH «MUSHROOM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mushroom.

1

Warren Bennis

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

2

Shirley Conran

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

3

Marcia Cross

I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.'

4

Tyler Florence

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

5

Andrew Greeley

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

6

Joe Pesci

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?

7

Carly Pope

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

8

Noel Redding

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

9

Condoleezza Rice

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

10

Paul Stamets

Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUSHROOM»

Discover the use of mushroom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mushroom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Mushroom Book

Filled with photographs of prized culinary fungi and notorious poisonious specimens, this book offers advice on where, when, and how to pick and prepare edible species.

Thomas Laessøe, Gary Lincoff, Anna Del Conte, 1996

The Deerholme Mushroom Book: From Foraging to Feasting

The Deerholme Mushroom Book is every chef's essential guide to edible mushrooms.

Bill Jones, 2013

Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi

Identifies over two thousand species, answers common questions about mushrooms, and gives advice on collecting, preserving, and cooking with mushrooms

David Arora, 1986

Hand Book of Mushroom Cultivation, Processing and Packaging

Dimensions: 22x15x3 cm Description: The Book Covers Introduction, Biology Of The Mushroom, Food Value Of Mushrooms, Uses Of Mushrooms, Cultivation Of White Button Cultivation Of Agaricus Bitorquis, Cultivation Of Paddy Straw Mushroom ...

‎2007

Mushroom

An illuminating look at the wonders of mushroom biology and an exploration of their enduring appeal

Nicholas P. Money, 2011

The Edible Mushroom Book

The first fully-illustrated book to not only help readers cook with mushrooms, but also to help them forage for fungi in the wild, The Edible Mushroom Book is part field guide, part cookbook.

Anna Del Conte, Thomas Laessoe, 2008

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American ...

Surveying a wide range of major science fiction novels and films, this book focuses on the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak.

M. Keith Booker, 2001

Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook: Easy Indoor & Outdoor Cultivation

First genuinely up-to-date guide to psychedelic mushroom cultivation in years, containing information on both indoor and outdoor varieties.

L. G. Nicholas, Kerry Ogame, 2006

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and ...

"First published by ... Hodder and Stoughton, London, May 1970, ... Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, August 1970"--T.p. verso.

‎2009

Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment

The Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning provides an in-depth examination of mushroom poisoning, including case examples for each toxic class.

Barry H. Rumack, David G. Spoerke, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUSHROOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mushroom is used in the context of the following news items.

Mushroom grower to be a big draw at fourth annual "edible Fest" in …

CISMONT—It's not too much of a stretch to call mushroom grower Mark Jones of Sharondale Farm in Albemarle County the Johnny Appleseed ... «Fredericksburg.com, Jul 15»

New Mobile Platformer 'Viking Mushroom' Coming In 2016

“Viking Mushroom” will apparently be about the Vikings of the past and their lives, with some interesting and beautiful fantasy elements added. «International Business Times, Jul 15»

Eating the wrong mushroom may cost you your liver

In the US there are about 6,000 reported cases of mushroom poisoning each year, most being mild cases, though many may go unreported. «Health24, Jul 15»

Mushroom hunting can turn out to be great wild food

Moreover, many folks never think of July as a good time to hunt and find another excellent edible mushroom, but they are missing out on some ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jul 15»

Dilomat Boss Tasks RSG On Mushroom Production

Executive Officer of Dilomat Farms Limited, Pastor Moore Chinda, has called on the Rivers State government to embrace mushroom production ... «The Tide, Jul 15»

A Mushroom Cloud Made From Coffee Creamer

Yes, it's possible to make a mushroom cloud with the stuff that whitens your coffee. These creamers are mostly flammable fat, and their light, ... «Popular Science, Jul 15»

This week on POL: Summer Mushroom Picking

Thanks to all of the rain we've been having, you can now find your favorite edible mushroom popping up everywhere. We'll also show you how ... «wnep.com, Jul 15»

Fungus fans warned to stay away from toxic Angel of Death mushroom

Ireland's leading mushroom expert and food forager, Bill O'Dea, issued the safety warning amid growing interest in wild wood stuffs. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Nerdgirl: Geeking out about Infinite Mushroom Comic Shop

I met Rick recently while covering a mini-con at his store, the Infinite Mushroom Comic Shop at Searstown Mall in Titusville. To celebrate the ... «Florida Today, Jul 15»

Gangs of mushroom pickers strip the forest of funghi

FEARS have been raised that black market gangs are stripping the New Forest bare of its edible mushrooms. Forestry Commission rangers have vowed to ... «Salisbury Journal, Jul 15»