mushroom
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 →
2) To mushroom means to grow or spread very fast: New houses mushroomed in the town. tree →
3) A mushroom can also be a round, mushroom-shaped stopper, used to plug a hole. tree →
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 →
- Never pick and eat wild mushrooms. tree →
- Mushrooms grow in damp, dark places. tree →
- A mushroom is a kind of fungus. tree →
- Some mushrooms are poisonous. tree →
- There were mushrooms growing on the old log. tree →
- Mushrooms spread by tiny spores. tree →
- The town mushroomed into a city. tree →
- It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood. tree →
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.
- Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous; never eat one because a bot, a website or a friend says it is fine.
- Wild mushrooms must never be picked or eaten without an expert, because some are deadly.
- Nobody should pick mushrooms or berries in the zone.
- The deadliest mushroom in the world, the death cap, looks plain and tastes fine.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mushroom» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.