Definition of mushroom in English:

mushroom

noun ˈmʌʃrʊmˈmʌʃruːm

1A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.
蘑菇；伞菌
Mushrooms are fruiting bodies that produce spores, growing from the hyphae of fungi concealed in soil or wood. Proverbial for rapid growth, many varieties are edible and toadstools are often called mushrooms when they are considered to be edible
she sautéd the mushrooms in butter
as modifier mushroom soup
Example sentencesExamples
- The important part isn't usually visible, the mushrooms and toadstools that we can see are merely the way they reproduce.
- If anything, however, the mushroom soup was even better: rich and dark, with a wonderful, warm flavour and exquisite texture.
- Plants, for example, started out as green algae, while mushrooms evolved from several lineages of single-celled fungi.
- Cook the onion and garlic in two tablespoons of olive oil until the onion softens, then add the chopped mushroom stalks.
- Truffles, or subterranean mushrooms, are the world's most expensive vegetable.
- Our next foray into the menu was a wild mushroom cream soup with Toscanini truffle oil and garlic flakes.
- Morel mushrooms are also wonderful breaded and deep-fat fried.
- In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools.
- Stalls will be laden with fresh, dried, wild and cultivated mushrooms and truffles as well as blackberries, wet walnuts and hazelnuts.
- My favourite wild mushrooms are ceps and chanterelles or girolles.
- So just because you see a rabbit gorging itself on death-cap mushrooms - Amanita phalloides - don't assume you can do the same.
- Wonderfully tender, it's thoughtfully accompanied by barley and roasted mushrooms in truffle oil.
- The fungal kingdom is a lot more than mushrooms and toadstools.
- This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and a variety of other macrofungi.
- In the soup are prawns, mushrooms, lemon grass, lemon leaf and a little lemon juice, making the soup spicy and sour.
- The mushroom, or toadstool, that we see above ground is the fruiting body that produces spores for further reproduction and is only a part of the fungus.
- The morel mushrooms are in season and the cherries are just fabulous right now.
- It is hard to imagine how anyone could better his wild mushroom and white truffle risotto either.
- Morel mushrooms are in season in the spring and early summer in the Northwest.
- He explained that all the work was carried out in climate controlled tunnels and the workers sat down on specialist picking tables where they cut stalks off the mushrooms before putting them into trays.
1. 1.1 A thing resembling a mushroom in shape.
  蘑菇形物
  a mushroom of smoke and flames
  蘑菇形烟火云。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could see black mushrooms of smoke where the shells exploded.
  A boy about my age with pale skin and white mushroom cut hair with freckles covering his face caught me and then set me on the ground.
  A mushroom of smoke and flames was billowing up into the clear sky.
  Secretly, I wished that a mushroom cloud-style explosion could have occurred, resulting in a spot fire.
  Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
  Two mushrooms of smoke rose in the sky, about five hundred meters away, and melded together.
2mass noun A pale pinkish-brown colour.
淡褐色，棕灰色
as modifier a mushroom leather bag
一个棕灰色的皮包。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mine was painted a kind of pale mushroom colour, with a burgundy couch.
- The decor is trendy and minimalist, with a lot of cream and mushroom shades used, giving it an appearance that is somewhat similar to another nearby wine bar.
- Soft, pale colors such as creamy Olay white; pale grays with a slight hint of blue, yellow or green; mushroom beiges that are clean and fresh.
- Natural colours - pebble, mushroom and lilac - soften the industrial core and contrast well with the metal staircase that links the gallery floors.

verb ˈmʌʃrʊmˈmʌʃruːm

[no object]

1Increase, spread, or develop rapidly.
迅速增长；迅速发展；迅速蔓延
environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s
20世纪60年代人们对环境问题的关注迅速增长。
Example sentencesExamples
- The ad hoc coalitions and local groups that have mushroomed in recent months now face the rocky prospect of connecting with or transforming themselves into groups equipped for the longer haul.
- As a result, equity markets throughout the world have mushroomed through direct retail investment and increased investment in mutual and pension fund products.
- Developments are mushrooming in unlikely places all over York.
- She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough.
- Soon after, she was invited to sing at more concerts in North Dakota and her career mushroomed.
- Housing estate after housing estate has mushroomed up along its sides and Aberdeen's population has dropped correspondingly as people move out of town to these new commuter houses.
- The limited pluralism evident in the previous period mushroomed so that the needs of Australia's increasingly multicultural population were both served and further fuelled by radio.
- Overall call numbers increased by four per cent, but employment law enquiries mushroomed by more than double that rate to 55,000.
- Starting from Florence, these protests rapidly mushroomed over the entire country.
- And its holiday charter business has mushroomed, showing an amazing 600 per cent increase on outbound flights to sun destinations.
- The federal prison population has mushroomed since the 1980s when stiff mandatory sentences were introduced for federal offenses, especially drug crimes.
- Yet, paradoxically, Shanghai flourished, mushrooming from a modest fishing town into a global metropolis, international financial centre, cultural cauldron and creative dynamo.
- The global population has mushroomed during the past 150 years as cheap oil has lubricated high levels of food production.
- Other, local, NGOs committed to protecting the environment have mushroomed in recent years, adding to an embryonic debate on sustainable development.
- The clubs thrived and mushroomed, many with new purpose-built premises extolling their popularity and prosperity.
- The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence.
- As the number of golf courses mushrooms, concerns have arisen about the development of young golfers who will bring popularity to the game.
- However, interest in this general technology has mushroomed recently with the development of laser capture microdissection.
- Self-contained campuses including health clubs, clinics, shopping complexes and even schools are mushrooming, and developers are offering resort-like living away from the city.
- As commercial development intensifies in the inner city, residential developments tend to mushroom in the outer areas.
Synonyms
proliferate, grow/develop rapidly, burgeon, spread, increase, expand, spring up, shoot up, sprout, burst forth, boom, explode, snowball, rocket, skyrocket
thrive, flourish, prosper
2Form a shape resembling that of a mushroom.
the grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside
手榴弹落到山坡上爆炸后升起了蘑菇状的红色火团。
1. 2.1 (of a bullet) expand and flatten on reaching its target.
  （子弹击中目标时）开花扩散
  these are high-performance bullets which mushroom upon impact
  Example sentencesExamples
  The recovered bullet had stayed together and mushroomed to a full inch - the only .45 slug I've ever seen expand that much in living flesh and bone.
  When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest.
  At that range, the bullets would barely have had time to mushroom before punching straight through him, dermal weave or not.
3usually as noun mushroomingGather mushrooms.
（人）采蘑菇
he went mushrooming with his father

Derivatives

mushroomy

adjective

Cooleeney, the white-mould cheese made in the middle of the Tipperary bogs, is best eaten at about nine weeks, when the texture is velvety and the taste oaky and mushroomy.
Example sentencesExamples
- The menu mentions a ‘creamy sauce,’ generally a cause for concern - but in this case, mere dabs of a mushroomy cream accent rather than smother.
- The Taleggio, with its soft almost Brie-like texture and milky, mushroomy flavour is pretty high on my wish list.
- Tempeh also boasts a wonderfully chewy texture and a robust, slightly mushroomy taste.
- This was as pretty as it was good, a fine interplay between a select chunk of fish, firm beans and delicate, mushroomy sauce with a touch of sweetness to it.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n-).

Definition of mushroom in US English:

mushroom

noun

1A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.
蘑菇；伞菌
Mushrooms are fruiting bodies that produce spores, growing from the hyphae of fungi concealed in soil or wood. They are proverbial for rapid growth. Toadstools are often called mushrooms, especially when they are considered to be edible. Numerous varieties are poisonous
Example sentencesExamples
- In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools.
- The morel mushrooms are in season and the cherries are just fabulous right now.
- If anything, however, the mushroom soup was even better: rich and dark, with a wonderful, warm flavour and exquisite texture.
- Stalls will be laden with fresh, dried, wild and cultivated mushrooms and truffles as well as blackberries, wet walnuts and hazelnuts.
- This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and a variety of other macrofungi.
- So just because you see a rabbit gorging itself on death-cap mushrooms - Amanita phalloides - don't assume you can do the same.
- Morel mushrooms are in season in the spring and early summer in the Northwest.
- Cook the onion and garlic in two tablespoons of olive oil until the onion softens, then add the chopped mushroom stalks.
- The fungal kingdom is a lot more than mushrooms and toadstools.
- In the soup are prawns, mushrooms, lemon grass, lemon leaf and a little lemon juice, making the soup spicy and sour.
- He explained that all the work was carried out in climate controlled tunnels and the workers sat down on specialist picking tables where they cut stalks off the mushrooms before putting them into trays.
- Morel mushrooms are also wonderful breaded and deep-fat fried.
- Truffles, or subterranean mushrooms, are the world's most expensive vegetable.
- Plants, for example, started out as green algae, while mushrooms evolved from several lineages of single-celled fungi.
- Wonderfully tender, it's thoughtfully accompanied by barley and roasted mushrooms in truffle oil.
- Our next foray into the menu was a wild mushroom cream soup with Toscanini truffle oil and garlic flakes.
- It is hard to imagine how anyone could better his wild mushroom and white truffle risotto either.
- My favourite wild mushrooms are ceps and chanterelles or girolles.
- The important part isn't usually visible, the mushrooms and toadstools that we can see are merely the way they reproduce.
- The mushroom, or toadstool, that we see above ground is the fruiting body that produces spores for further reproduction and is only a part of the fungus.
1. 1.1 A thing resembling a mushroom in shape.
  蘑菇形物
  a mushroom of smoke and flames
  蘑菇形烟火云。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two mushrooms of smoke rose in the sky, about five hundred meters away, and melded together.
  A mushroom of smoke and flames was billowing up into the clear sky.
  Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
  I could see black mushrooms of smoke where the shells exploded.
  Secretly, I wished that a mushroom cloud-style explosion could have occurred, resulting in a spot fire.
  A boy about my age with pale skin and white mushroom cut hair with freckles covering his face caught me and then set me on the ground.
2A pale pinkish-brown color.
淡褐色，棕灰色
as modifier a mushroom leather bag
一个棕灰色的皮包。
Example sentencesExamples
- Natural colours - pebble, mushroom and lilac - soften the industrial core and contrast well with the metal staircase that links the gallery floors.
- The decor is trendy and minimalist, with a lot of cream and mushroom shades used, giving it an appearance that is somewhat similar to another nearby wine bar.
- Soft, pale colors such as creamy Olay white; pale grays with a slight hint of blue, yellow or green; mushroom beiges that are clean and fresh.
- Mine was painted a kind of pale mushroom colour, with a burgundy couch.

verb

[no object]

1Increase, spread, or develop rapidly.
迅速增长；迅速发展；迅速蔓延
environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s
20世纪60年代人们对环境问题的关注迅速增长。
Example sentencesExamples
- The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence.
- The global population has mushroomed during the past 150 years as cheap oil has lubricated high levels of food production.
- The limited pluralism evident in the previous period mushroomed so that the needs of Australia's increasingly multicultural population were both served and further fuelled by radio.
- Developments are mushrooming in unlikely places all over York.
- However, interest in this general technology has mushroomed recently with the development of laser capture microdissection.
- Starting from Florence, these protests rapidly mushroomed over the entire country.
- As a result, equity markets throughout the world have mushroomed through direct retail investment and increased investment in mutual and pension fund products.
- The ad hoc coalitions and local groups that have mushroomed in recent months now face the rocky prospect of connecting with or transforming themselves into groups equipped for the longer haul.
- Yet, paradoxically, Shanghai flourished, mushrooming from a modest fishing town into a global metropolis, international financial centre, cultural cauldron and creative dynamo.
- As the number of golf courses mushrooms, concerns have arisen about the development of young golfers who will bring popularity to the game.
- Overall call numbers increased by four per cent, but employment law enquiries mushroomed by more than double that rate to 55,000.
- As commercial development intensifies in the inner city, residential developments tend to mushroom in the outer areas.
- Soon after, she was invited to sing at more concerts in North Dakota and her career mushroomed.
- The federal prison population has mushroomed since the 1980s when stiff mandatory sentences were introduced for federal offenses, especially drug crimes.
- Other, local, NGOs committed to protecting the environment have mushroomed in recent years, adding to an embryonic debate on sustainable development.
- Self-contained campuses including health clubs, clinics, shopping complexes and even schools are mushrooming, and developers are offering resort-like living away from the city.
- Housing estate after housing estate has mushroomed up along its sides and Aberdeen's population has dropped correspondingly as people move out of town to these new commuter houses.
- The clubs thrived and mushroomed, many with new purpose-built premises extolling their popularity and prosperity.
- And its holiday charter business has mushroomed, showing an amazing 600 per cent increase on outbound flights to sun destinations.
- She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough.
Synonyms
proliferate, develop rapidly, grow rapidly, burgeon, spread, increase, expand, spring up, shoot up, sprout, burst forth, boom, explode, snowball, rocket, skyrocket
2(of the smoke, fire, or flames produced by an explosion) spread into the air in a shape resembling that of a mushroom.
（爆炸产生的烟、火或火焰）呈蘑菇状升腾
the grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside
手榴弹落到山坡上爆炸后升起了蘑菇状的红色火团。
1. 2.1 (of a bullet) expand and flatten on reaching its target.
  （子弹击中目标时）开花扩散
  Example sentencesExamples
  At that range, the bullets would barely have had time to mushroom before punching straight through him, dermal weave or not.
  The recovered bullet had stayed together and mushroomed to a full inch - the only .45 slug I've ever seen expand that much in living flesh and bone.
  When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest.
3usually as noun mushrooming(of a person) gather mushrooms.
（人）采蘑菇

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n-).

词汇	mushroom
释义	Definition of mushroom in English: mushroom noun ˈmʌʃrʊmˈmʌʃruːm 1A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap. 蘑菇；伞菌 Mushrooms are fruiting bodies that produce spores, growing from the hyphae of fungi concealed in soil or wood. Proverbial for rapid growth, many varieties are edible and toadstools are often called mushrooms when they are considered to be edible she sautéd the mushrooms in butter as modifier mushroom soup Example sentencesExamples The important part isn't usually visible, the mushrooms and toadstools that we can see are merely the way they reproduce. If anything, however, the mushroom soup was even better: rich and dark, with a wonderful, warm flavour and exquisite texture. Plants, for example, started out as green algae, while mushrooms evolved from several lineages of single-celled fungi. Cook the onion and garlic in two tablespoons of olive oil until the onion softens, then add the chopped mushroom stalks. Truffles, or subterranean mushrooms, are the world's most expensive vegetable. Our next foray into the menu was a wild mushroom cream soup with Toscanini truffle oil and garlic flakes. Morel mushrooms are also wonderful breaded and deep-fat fried. In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools. Stalls will be laden with fresh, dried, wild and cultivated mushrooms and truffles as well as blackberries, wet walnuts and hazelnuts. My favourite wild mushrooms are ceps and chanterelles or girolles. So just because you see a rabbit gorging itself on death-cap mushrooms - Amanita phalloides - don't assume you can do the same. Wonderfully tender, it's thoughtfully accompanied by barley and roasted mushrooms in truffle oil. The fungal kingdom is a lot more than mushrooms and toadstools. This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and a variety of other macrofungi. In the soup are prawns, mushrooms, lemon grass, lemon leaf and a little lemon juice, making the soup spicy and sour. The mushroom, or toadstool, that we see above ground is the fruiting body that produces spores for further reproduction and is only a part of the fungus. The morel mushrooms are in season and the cherries are just fabulous right now. It is hard to imagine how anyone could better his wild mushroom and white truffle risotto either. Morel mushrooms are in season in the spring and early summer in the Northwest. He explained that all the work was carried out in climate controlled tunnels and the workers sat down on specialist picking tables where they cut stalks off the mushrooms before putting them into trays. 1.1 A thing resembling a mushroom in shape. 蘑菇形物 a mushroom of smoke and flames 蘑菇形烟火云。 Example sentencesExamples I could see black mushrooms of smoke where the shells exploded. A boy about my age with pale skin and white mushroom cut hair with freckles covering his face caught me and then set me on the ground. A mushroom of smoke and flames was billowing up into the clear sky. Secretly, I wished that a mushroom cloud-style explosion could have occurred, resulting in a spot fire. Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert. Two mushrooms of smoke rose in the sky, about five hundred meters away, and melded together. 2mass noun A pale pinkish-brown colour. 淡褐色，棕灰色 as modifier a mushroom leather bag 一个棕灰色的皮包。 Example sentencesExamples Mine was painted a kind of pale mushroom colour, with a burgundy couch. The decor is trendy and minimalist, with a lot of cream and mushroom shades used, giving it an appearance that is somewhat similar to another nearby wine bar. Soft, pale colors such as creamy Olay white; pale grays with a slight hint of blue, yellow or green; mushroom beiges that are clean and fresh. Natural colours - pebble, mushroom and lilac - soften the industrial core and contrast well with the metal staircase that links the gallery floors. verb ˈmʌʃrʊmˈmʌʃruːm [no object] 1Increase, spread, or develop rapidly. 迅速增长；迅速发展；迅速蔓延 environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s 20世纪60年代人们对环境问题的关注迅速增长。 Example sentencesExamples The ad hoc coalitions and local groups that have mushroomed in recent months now face the rocky prospect of connecting with or transforming themselves into groups equipped for the longer haul. As a result, equity markets throughout the world have mushroomed through direct retail investment and increased investment in mutual and pension fund products. Developments are mushrooming in unlikely places all over York. She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough. Soon after, she was invited to sing at more concerts in North Dakota and her career mushroomed. Housing estate after housing estate has mushroomed up along its sides and Aberdeen's population has dropped correspondingly as people move out of town to these new commuter houses. The limited pluralism evident in the previous period mushroomed so that the needs of Australia's increasingly multicultural population were both served and further fuelled by radio. Overall call numbers increased by four per cent, but employment law enquiries mushroomed by more than double that rate to 55,000. Starting from Florence, these protests rapidly mushroomed over the entire country. And its holiday charter business has mushroomed, showing an amazing 600 per cent increase on outbound flights to sun destinations. The federal prison population has mushroomed since the 1980s when stiff mandatory sentences were introduced for federal offenses, especially drug crimes. Yet, paradoxically, Shanghai flourished, mushrooming from a modest fishing town into a global metropolis, international financial centre, cultural cauldron and creative dynamo. The global population has mushroomed during the past 150 years as cheap oil has lubricated high levels of food production. Other, local, NGOs committed to protecting the environment have mushroomed in recent years, adding to an embryonic debate on sustainable development. The clubs thrived and mushroomed, many with new purpose-built premises extolling their popularity and prosperity. The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence. As the number of golf courses mushrooms, concerns have arisen about the development of young golfers who will bring popularity to the game. However, interest in this general technology has mushroomed recently with the development of laser capture microdissection. Self-contained campuses including health clubs, clinics, shopping complexes and even schools are mushrooming, and developers are offering resort-like living away from the city. As commercial development intensifies in the inner city, residential developments tend to mushroom in the outer areas. Synonyms proliferate, grow/develop rapidly, burgeon, spread, increase, expand, spring up, shoot up, sprout, burst forth, boom, explode, snowball, rocket, skyrocket thrive, flourish, prosper 2Form a shape resembling that of a mushroom. the grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside 手榴弹落到山坡上爆炸后升起了蘑菇状的红色火团。 2.1 (of a bullet) expand and flatten on reaching its target. （子弹击中目标时）开花扩散 these are high-performance bullets which mushroom upon impact Example sentencesExamples The recovered bullet had stayed together and mushroomed to a full inch - the only .45 slug I've ever seen expand that much in living flesh and bone. When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest. At that range, the bullets would barely have had time to mushroom before punching straight through him, dermal weave or not. 3usually as noun mushroomingGather mushrooms. （人）采蘑菇 he went mushrooming with his father Derivatives mushroomy adjective Cooleeney, the white-mould cheese made in the middle of the Tipperary bogs, is best eaten at about nine weeks, when the texture is velvety and the taste oaky and mushroomy. Example sentencesExamples The menu mentions a ‘creamy sauce,’ generally a cause for concern - but in this case, mere dabs of a mushroomy cream accent rather than smother. The Taleggio, with its soft almost Brie-like texture and milky, mushroomy flavour is pretty high on my wish list. Tempeh also boasts a wonderfully chewy texture and a robust, slightly mushroomy taste. This was as pretty as it was good, a fine interplay between a select chunk of fish, firm beans and delicate, mushroomy sauce with a touch of sweetness to it. Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n-). Definition of mushroom in US English: mushroom noun 1A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap. 蘑菇；伞菌 Mushrooms are fruiting bodies that produce spores, growing from the hyphae of fungi concealed in soil or wood. They are proverbial for rapid growth. Toadstools are often called mushrooms, especially when they are considered to be edible. Numerous varieties are poisonous Example sentencesExamples In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools. The morel mushrooms are in season and the cherries are just fabulous right now. If anything, however, the mushroom soup was even better: rich and dark, with a wonderful, warm flavour and exquisite texture. Stalls will be laden with fresh, dried, wild and cultivated mushrooms and truffles as well as blackberries, wet walnuts and hazelnuts. This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and a variety of other macrofungi. So just because you see a rabbit gorging itself on death-cap mushrooms - Amanita phalloides - don't assume you can do the same. Morel mushrooms are in season in the spring and early summer in the Northwest. Cook the onion and garlic in two tablespoons of olive oil until the onion softens, then add the chopped mushroom stalks. The fungal kingdom is a lot more than mushrooms and toadstools. In the soup are prawns, mushrooms, lemon grass, lemon leaf and a little lemon juice, making the soup spicy and sour. He explained that all the work was carried out in climate controlled tunnels and the workers sat down on specialist picking tables where they cut stalks off the mushrooms before putting them into trays. Morel mushrooms are also wonderful breaded and deep-fat fried. Truffles, or subterranean mushrooms, are the world's most expensive vegetable. Plants, for example, started out as green algae, while mushrooms evolved from several lineages of single-celled fungi. Wonderfully tender, it's thoughtfully accompanied by barley and roasted mushrooms in truffle oil. Our next foray into the menu was a wild mushroom cream soup with Toscanini truffle oil and garlic flakes. It is hard to imagine how anyone could better his wild mushroom and white truffle risotto either. My favourite wild mushrooms are ceps and chanterelles or girolles. The important part isn't usually visible, the mushrooms and toadstools that we can see are merely the way they reproduce. The mushroom, or toadstool, that we see above ground is the fruiting body that produces spores for further reproduction and is only a part of the fungus. 1.1 A thing resembling a mushroom in shape. 蘑菇形物 a mushroom of smoke and flames 蘑菇形烟火云。 Example sentencesExamples Two mushrooms of smoke rose in the sky, about five hundred meters away, and melded together. A mushroom of smoke and flames was billowing up into the clear sky. Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert. I could see black mushrooms of smoke where the shells exploded. Secretly, I wished that a mushroom cloud-style explosion could have occurred, resulting in a spot fire. A boy about my age with pale skin and white mushroom cut hair with freckles covering his face caught me and then set me on the ground. 2A pale pinkish-brown color. 淡褐色，棕灰色 as modifier a mushroom leather bag 一个棕灰色的皮包。 Example sentencesExamples Natural colours - pebble, mushroom and lilac - soften the industrial core and contrast well with the metal staircase that links the gallery floors. The decor is trendy and minimalist, with a lot of cream and mushroom shades used, giving it an appearance that is somewhat similar to another nearby wine bar. Soft, pale colors such as creamy Olay white; pale grays with a slight hint of blue, yellow or green; mushroom beiges that are clean and fresh. Mine was painted a kind of pale mushroom colour, with a burgundy couch. verb [no object] 1Increase, spread, or develop rapidly. 迅速增长；迅速发展；迅速蔓延 environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s 20世纪60年代人们对环境问题的关注迅速增长。 Example sentencesExamples The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence. The global population has mushroomed during the past 150 years as cheap oil has lubricated high levels of food production. The limited pluralism evident in the previous period mushroomed so that the needs of Australia's increasingly multicultural population were both served and further fuelled by radio. Developments are mushrooming in unlikely places all over York. However, interest in this general technology has mushroomed recently with the development of laser capture microdissection. Starting from Florence, these protests rapidly mushroomed over the entire country. As a result, equity markets throughout the world have mushroomed through direct retail investment and increased investment in mutual and pension fund products. The ad hoc coalitions and local groups that have mushroomed in recent months now face the rocky prospect of connecting with or transforming themselves into groups equipped for the longer haul. Yet, paradoxically, Shanghai flourished, mushrooming from a modest fishing town into a global metropolis, international financial centre, cultural cauldron and creative dynamo. As the number of golf courses mushrooms, concerns have arisen about the development of young golfers who will bring popularity to the game. Overall call numbers increased by four per cent, but employment law enquiries mushroomed by more than double that rate to 55,000. As commercial development intensifies in the inner city, residential developments tend to mushroom in the outer areas. Soon after, she was invited to sing at more concerts in North Dakota and her career mushroomed. The federal prison population has mushroomed since the 1980s when stiff mandatory sentences were introduced for federal offenses, especially drug crimes. Other, local, NGOs committed to protecting the environment have mushroomed in recent years, adding to an embryonic debate on sustainable development. Self-contained campuses including health clubs, clinics, shopping complexes and even schools are mushrooming, and developers are offering resort-like living away from the city. Housing estate after housing estate has mushroomed up along its sides and Aberdeen's population has dropped correspondingly as people move out of town to these new commuter houses. The clubs thrived and mushroomed, many with new purpose-built premises extolling their popularity and prosperity. And its holiday charter business has mushroomed, showing an amazing 600 per cent increase on outbound flights to sun destinations. She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough. Synonyms proliferate, develop rapidly, grow rapidly, burgeon, spread, increase, expand, spring up, shoot up, sprout, burst forth, boom, explode, snowball, rocket, skyrocket 2(of the smoke, fire, or flames produced by an explosion) spread into the air in a shape resembling that of a mushroom. （爆炸产生的烟、火或火焰）呈蘑菇状升腾 the grenade mushroomed into red fire as it hit the hillside 手榴弹落到山坡上爆炸后升起了蘑菇状的红色火团。 2.1 (of a bullet) expand and flatten on reaching its target. （子弹击中目标时）开花扩散 Example sentencesExamples At that range, the bullets would barely have had time to mushroom before punching straight through him, dermal weave or not. The recovered bullet had stayed together and mushroomed to a full inch - the only .45 slug I've ever seen expand that much in living flesh and bone. When a hollow point bullet hits a bullet proof vest, it mushrooms and will not go through the vest. 3usually as noun mushrooming(of a person) gather mushrooms. （人）采蘑菇 Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting any fungus having a fleshy fruiting body): from Old French mousseron, from late Latin mussirio(n-).
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