mushroom

英 ['mʌʃruːm; -rʊm] 美['mʌʃrʊm]

• n. 蘑菇，伞菌；蘑菇形物体；暴发户
• adj. 蘑菇的；蘑菇形的；迅速生长的
• vi. 迅速增加；采蘑菇；迅速生长

1. common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)

2. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium

3. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

4. fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi