An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
Any large fungus developing a visible fruiting body with a stem and cap, usu. of the basidiomycetes;
one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous. The term mushroom is used most often for edible varieties, the poisonous ones being termed toadstools or other names. But this distinction is often ignored.
to grow or expand rapidly.
to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full-blown war.
a fungus that's kept in the dark and fertilized with manure; in American business slang, the employees who feel they are treated the same way ( language=American business slang)
a general loosely defined term for fleshy fungal fruitbodies, usually bearing gills
See Chinese mushroom, Agaricus mushroom, Straw mushroom, Wood Ear fungi and Enoki mushroom.
the aerial fruiting (spore producing) body of various fungi.
A structure bearing the reproductive organs of the plant that produce spores.
common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"
a fungus, not a vegetable
a multicellular fungus whose external features represent its reproductive organs
an edible ( fugitive, fungus, parlour, fantasy )
an nth-dimensional space-travelling, spore-bearing, solar-wind-riding interstellar traveller here to hollow out your brainpan and fill it with semi-intelligent iridescent goo
Any of various fleshy fungi, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk.
The "flowering" part of a fungus. The main body of a fungus is a network of tiny thread-like parts, called mycelium. Mushrooms grow from the mycelium during a particular season and release tiny dust-like spores. Spores travel by wind, water, or animal and hopefully start a new fungus in a new location.
A conspicuous fleshy fungus fruiting body.
There are thousands of varieties of this fleshy fungus. The cultivated mushroom is commonly available, but other wild varieties include cepe, chanterelle, enokitake, morel, puffball, and shiitake. Many wild mushrooms are poisonous.
A fleshy fruiting body of a fungus, often with a gilled pore surface.
any of many species of cultivated or wild fleshy fungus, usually consisting of a stem, a cap (which may have gills) and mycelium; available fresh or dried and eaten raw, reconstituted or cooked.
A fleshy fruiting body of a fungus, especially of a basidiomycete of the family Agaricaceae. ( 20)
Mushrooms are fast-growing fungi (they are not plants). They grow in dark, damp places and reproduce via spores.
Fleshy, sometimes tough, umbrella like basidiocarp of certain Basidiomycota.
A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus having a shaft and a cap. By extension, mushroom also designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the fungus consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae. In an even broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, and other surface matter.