Definition of mushroom
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Examples of mushroom in a Sentence
cut up some mushrooms for the salad
Recent Examples of mushroom from the Web
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Mushrooms continue to pop up across North Texas lawns.
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Despite the sweltering, arid climate, farmers have found ways to grow organic produce like tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant and champignon mushrooms inside greenhouses.
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Long, messy, layered hair is having a moment right now, to be sure, but few guys have dared to revisit the mushroom-like cuts of Hugh Grant’s heyday.
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Vegetables include crispy cauliflower steak with broccoli puree, quinoa risotto with porcini mushrooms and potato and celery root gratin with gruyere and parmesan.
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A 17-year-old boy allegedly high on mushrooms was charged with driving a car into his friend and killing him before crashing into the second teen’s house early Sunday in Kansas City, North.
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Located one hour from the nearest city, the humidity here is so high that mushrooms and other plants grow even on the fiberglass roof tiles.
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Dinner entree prices range from $26 for pasta with mushroom ragout to $80 for a dry-aged 24-ounce rib-eye steak meal.
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Served in a rich and creamy sauce infused with mushrooms and parmesan, the gnocchi were tender and complemented by the pop of fresh English peas and delicate asparagus.
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Origin and Etymology of mushroom
Middle English musheron, from Anglo-French musherum, musseron, from Late Latin mussirion-, mussirio
mushroom
Definition of mushroom
Examples of mushroom in a Sentence
Interest in local history is suddenly mushrooming.
Her hobby mushroomed into a thriving business.
He goes mushrooming in the spring every year.
Recent Examples of mushroom from the Web
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The blaze has mushroomed to 48,000 acres, an increase of about 23,000 acres compared to the day before.
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As a result, the price of panels plummeted 80% over the last two years as demand has mushroomed.
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Officials are hoping education efforts will keep the Zika problem from mushrooming this year.
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But a single connection mushroomed, and so did the stakes.
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What began as small scuffles between police and protesters who tried to jump a cordon mushroomed into a series of confrontations in which officers fired tear gas and pepper spray to contain the crowd.
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As the portfolio mushroomed, some policy experts said the student aid office lacked the expertise to analyze student loan data and spot trouble in the portfolio.
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While largely blotted out by the shock of daily revelations about Trump, in a normal news environment this revelation would have mushroomed into a first-tier scandal of its own.
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However, Latino enrollment has mushroomed to one-quarter of the Jefferson school system.
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First Known Use of mushroom
1893
MUSHROOM Defined for English Language Learners
mushroom
playDefinition of mushroom for English Language Learners
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: a fungus that is shaped like an umbrella; especially : one that can be eaten
mushroom
Definition of mushroom for English Language Learners
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: to increase or develop very quickly
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: to collect wild mushrooms
MUSHROOM Defined for Kids
Definition of mushroom for Students
: a part of a fungus that bears spores, grows above ground, and suggests an umbrella in shape
Definition of mushroom for Students
mushroomed
;mushrooming
: to appear or develop suddenly or increase rapidly The town's population has mushroomed.
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of mushroom
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