a FUNGUS with a round flat head and short stem. Many mushrooms can be eaten:
a field mushroom (= the most common type that is eaten, often just called a 'mushroom', and often grown to be sold) * fried mushrooms * cream of mushroom soup
seealsoBUTTONMUSHROOM, TOADSTOOL
verb [V]
1 to rapidly grow or increase in number:
We expect the market to mushroom in the next two years.
2 (usually go mushrooming) to gather mushrooms in a field or wood
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