mushroom : Idioms & Phrases

• noun yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched
  blusher; Amanita rubescens.
  

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• noun a poisonous gyromitra; the surface of the fertile body is smooth at first and becomes progressively undulating and wrinkled (but never truly pitted); color varies from dull yellow to brown
  beefsteak morel; Gyromitra esculenta.
  

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially
  Chinese mushroom; Volvariella volvacea.
  

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• noun a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods
  Pluteus cervinus.
  

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• noun mushroom that grows in a fairy ring
  Marasmius oreades.
  

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• noun common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce
  Agaricus campestris; field mushroom.
  

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• noun a type of slime mushroom
  

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes
  Clavicipitaceae.
  

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• noun a variety of mushroom pimple
  

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• noun a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw
  Armillariella mellea; honey fungus.
  

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• noun coarse edible mushroom with a hollow stem and a broad white cap
  Agaricus arvensis.
  

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• noun having a cap that melts into an inky fluid after spores have matured
  inky cap; Coprinus atramentarius.
  

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• noun the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin
  mescal button; magic mushroom.
  

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• noun common edible mushroom found naturally in moist open soil; the cultivated mushroom of commerce
  Agaricus campestris; field mushroom.
  

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• noun a helvella with a saddle-shaped fertile part and creamy color; the stalk is fluted and pitted
  Helvella crispa.
  

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• noun an anchor used for semipermanent moorings; has a bowl-shaped head that will dig in however it falls
  

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• an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls.

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• 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)
  mushroom cloud; mushroom.
  

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• noun flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached)
  

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• (Zoöl.), any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia.

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• noun any of various fungi of the family Hypocreaceae
  

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• noun toxic condition caused by eating certain species of mushrooms (especially Amanita species)
  

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• noun brown sauce and sauteed mushrooms
  

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• (Bot.), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.

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• noun brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or Madeira
  marchand de vin.
  

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Mush"room-head`ed adjective

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1. (Bot.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

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• 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)
  mushroom cloud; mushroom.
  

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• noun a variety of mushroom pimple
  

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
  Pleurotus ostreatus; oyster agaric; oyster fungus.
  

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• noun edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn
  Lepiota procera.
  

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• noun woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent
  polypore; pore fungus.
  

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• noun a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer
  Pluteus; genus Pluteus.
  

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• noun the button-shaped top of the mescal cactus; a source of psilocybin
  mescal button; magic mushroom.
  

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• noun an edible agaric that fruits in great clusters (especially in sandy soil under cottonwood trees)
  Tricholoma populinum.
  

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• noun an edible agaric found in piles of hardwood sawdust; the caps are black and coarsely wrinkled
  Pluteus magnus.
  

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• noun common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores
  Coprinus comatus; shaggy cap; shaggymane.
  

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; Oriental black mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun a mushroom of the genus Amanita
  

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• noun popular in China and Japan and Taiwan; gelatinous mushrooms; most are dried
  Tremella fuciformis.
  

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• noun an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges
  sponge morel; common morel; Morchella esculenta.
  

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• noun small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially
  Chinese mushroom; Volvariella volvacea.
  

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• noun mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach
  

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• noun one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan
  nameko; Pholiota nameko.
  

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• noun a type of slime mushroom
  

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• noun an edible agaric that is available in early spring or late fall when few other mushrooms are; has a viscid smooth orange to brown cap and a velvety stalk that turns black in maturity and pallid gills; often occur in clusters
  Flammulina velutipes.
  

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