Definitions For Mushroom

noun

  • Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
  • A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
  • Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
  • Mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
  • Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
  • A fungus that is shaped like an umbrella ; especially : one that can be eaten

verb

  • Grow and spread fast
  • Pick or gather mushrooms
  • To increase or develop very quickly
  • To collect wild mushrooms

Is Mushrooms a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
18

The word Mushroom is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Mushroom in a Sentence

  • Cut up some mushrooms for the salad
  • Interest in local history is suddenly mushrooming.
  • Her hobby mushroomed into a thriving business.
  • He goes mushrooming in the spring every year.

Antonyms for Mushrooms

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