(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
Mushrooms are fungi that you can eat.
There are many types of wild ~s.
...~ omelette.
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2.
If something such as an industry or a place ~s, it grows or comes into existence very quickly.
The media training industry has ~ed over the past decade...
A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has ~ed to a crowded city of 2 million.
VERB: V, V to/into n