mushroom

名词 mushroom:

1. common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
2. any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
3. a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
   同义词：mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
4. fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

动词 mushroom:

1. pick or gather mushrooms
2. grow and spread fast

1. Edible roots; an edible mushroom.
   可食根; 一种可食用蘑菇
2. New blocks of flats and offices have mushroomed all over the city.
   在全市各处如雨后春笋般出现了许多新公寓和办公楼。
3. I gathered many mushrooms after rain.
   雨后我采了很多蘑菇。
4. Some mushrooms are poisonous.
   有些蘑菇有毒。

mush.room

n.（名词）
Any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds, as those of the genusAgaricus.
蘑菇：各种气生肉质真菌子实体中的一种；有典型的伞状菌盖连接其下的菌柄，特别是伞菌 属中任一种可食的
Something shaped like one of these fungi.
菌状物：形状像这些真菌类中任一种
v.intr.（不及物动词）
mush.roomed,mush.room.ing,mush.rooms
To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly:
快速扩张：非常快地增长、生长或者扩展：
例句：
The population mushroomed in the postwar decades.
战后数十年里人口快速增长

To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.
呈菌状扩散：膨胀或者伸展成象蘑菇的形状
adj.（形容词）
Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms:
蘑菇的，象蘑菇的：与蘑菇有关的、由蘑菇组成的或者包含蘑菇的：
例句：
mushroom sauce.
蘑菇酱

Resembling a mushroom in shape:
形状象蘑菇的：
例句：
a mushroom cloud.
蘑菇云

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence:
快速生长的：象蘑菇一样的快速生长或消失：
例句：
mushroom towns.
快速发展的城市

来源：
Middle English musheron
中古英语 musheron
from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum
源自 英法语 moscheron, musherum
from Old French mousseron
源自 古法语 mousseron
from Medieval Latin musariô musariôn-
源自 中世纪拉丁语 musariô musariôn-