mushrooms Definition

to well up and spread out laterally from a central source

to become enlarged or extended : grow

to collect wild mushrooms

an enlarged complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus (such as a basidiomycete) that consists typically of a stem bearing a pileus; especially : one that is edible

fungus

upstart

a usually small white mushroom (Agaricus bisporus synonym A. brunnescens) in which the pileus has not yet expanded

the dark brown to black, irregularly shaped, sterile, mycelial mass of a fungus (Inonotus obliquus of the family Hymenochaetaceae) that grows parasitically chiefly on hardwood trees and especially birch in temperate climates of the northern hemisphere

chicken of the woods

a whitish cultivated agaric mushroom (Flammulina velutipes synonym Collybia velutipes) with a long thin stem and a small cap

meadow mushroom

a common edible whitish agaric mushroom (Agaricus campestris) that has gills which change from pink to brown and usually grows in moist open areas (such as fields or lawns)

an edible mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) that grows especially on deciduous trees and deadwood

magic mushroom

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