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# mushroom

«mushroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fungus with a stalk and a round cap; some kinds are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mushroom, mushrooms); verb (mushroom, mushrooms, mushroomed, mushrooming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mushroom is a fungus with a stalk and a round cap; some kinds are eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m1)

2) To mushroom means to grow or spread very fast: New houses mushroomed in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m2)

3) A mushroom can also be a round, mushroom-shaped stopper, used to plug a hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, mushrooms are not plants; they are fungi, which do not make their own food from sunlight but feed on rotting things, and they spread by spores. In safety lessons: never eat wild mushrooms, because some are very poisonous and look like safe ones; only eat mushrooms from a shop. Phrases: mushroom soup, button mushroom, wild mushrooms, mushroom cloud.

### examples

- We had mushroom soup for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x1)
- Never pick and eat wild mushrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x2)
- Mushrooms grow in damp, dark places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x3)
- A mushroom is a kind of fungus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x4)
- Some mushrooms are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x5)
- There were mushrooms growing on the old log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x6)
- Mushrooms spread by tiny spores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x7)
- The town mushroomed into a city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x8)
- It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/#x9)

### note

Countable. One word. Mushrooms are fungi, not vegetables or plants, even though they are sold with vegetables. A toadstool usually means a mushroom that is poisonous or not eaten.

### In the corpora

- [And for anything that could hurt you, like a wild mushroom, the answer always goes to a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/7/)
- [Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous; never eat one because a bot, a website or a friend says it is fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/17/)
- [Wild mushrooms must never be picked or eaten without an expert, because some are deadly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/15/)
- [Nobody should pick mushrooms or berries in the zone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/19/)
- [The deadliest mushroom in the world, the death cap, looks plain and tastes fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mushroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mushroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.