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fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed" pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall" |
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