Synonyms for mushroom

Most common

shroom · burgeon · parvenu

All synonyms

Noun

Antonyms

toadstool

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

   Some mushrooms are edible whereas others are poisonous, and sometimes they are difficult to tell apart.

Related words

Word family

mushie mushroomer mushroomoid mushroom-shaped mushroomy

Phrases

magic mushroom beefsteak mushroom button mushroom brain mushroom cultivated mushroom mushroom cut mushroom root rot oyster mushroom

Is a kind of

fruiting body body fungus organism

Forms

Plural

mushrooms → shrooms, mushrumps, snobs, upstarts…

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

snob¹

6 letters

shroom

7 letters

upstart², burgeon², parvenu

8 letters

mushrump

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (upstart² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

champignon

Italiano

fungo

Español

hongo

Deutsch

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