Dictionary Check: mushroom

"mushroom" is a valid word!

Scrabble 15 points
Words with Friends 17 points

Definition

noun

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

Antonyms:
noun

mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)

noun

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

noun

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

noun

fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

verb

pick or gather mushrooms

Example: "We went mushrooming in the Fall"

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