MUSHROOM


Meaning of MUSHROOM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mʌʃru:m ]

( mushrooms, mushrooming, mushroomed)

1.

Mushrooms are fungi that you can eat.

There are many types of wild mushrooms.

...mushroom omelette.

N-VAR

see also button mushroom

2.

If something such as an industry or a place mushrooms , it grows or comes into existence very quickly.

The media training industry has mushroomed over the past decade...

A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million.

VERB : V , V to/into n

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