mushroomnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/us/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/A2 a fungus with a round top and short stem. Some types of mushroom can be eaten:
wild/cultivated mushrooms
button (= very small) mushrooms
dried/grilled/stuffed/sliced mushrooms
cream of mushroom soup
For this recipe choose mushrooms with large caps (= top parts).
Unfortunately some poisonous mushrooms look like edible mushrooms.
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- I can recommend the chicken in mushroom sauce - it's delicious.
- "What are you having?" "Er, I'm wavering between the fish soup and the mushroom tart."
- I had a mushroom omelette.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses
- adenovirus
- antimicrobial
- bacteriology
- bacteriophage
- C. difficile
- E. coli
- fungal
- fungoid
- fungus
- germ
- HIV-positive
- listeria
- microbe
- microorganism
- mould
- organism
- probiotic
- shitake mushroom
- taenia
- West Nile virus
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mushroomverb [ I ]
uk/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/us/ˈmʌʃ.ruːm//ˈmʌʃ.rʊm/to increase very quickly:
The number of computers in schools has mushroomed in recent years.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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