Definition of Mushrooms

1. Noun. (plural of mushroom) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mushrooms

1. mushroom [v] - See also: mushroom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mushrooms

mushroom coral
mushroom party
mushroom pimple
mushroom poisoning
mushroom sauce
mushroom wine sauce
mushroomburger
mushroomburgers
mushroomed
mushroomer
mushroomers
mushrooming
mushroomless
mushroomlike
mushroomoid
mushrooms (current term)
mushroomy
mushy
mushy peas
music
music blindness
music box
music boxes
music center
music centers
music centre
music centres
music chart
music charts
music critic

Literary usage of Mushrooms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"A careful cook will keep back a little of the simple boiled liquor to guard against this danger; a good one will always avoid it. To stew mushrooms. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"mushrooms and TRUFFLES. Figs. 703-713. By BM Duggar; illustrations of mushrooms from photographs by GF Atkinson. The native or wild mushrooms supply a ..."

3. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"mushrooms are fungi. More specifically, they are saprophytes, which means that they live on dead and decaying material. mushrooms convert decaying matter ..."

4. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"Stewed mushrooms in Cream. Prepare mushrooms as for Stewed mushrooms. ... Broiled mushrooms. Wash mushrooms, remove stems, and place caps in t buttered ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"This principle seems to be the same or nearly the same in different species of mushrooms, but the effects produced may vary in different individuals. ..."

6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"It is not advisable to preserve portions of dishes of mushrooms which have not been consumed. The use of dried mushrooms is as far as possible to be avoided ..."

7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Now and then some one makes a success of growing mushrooms out of doors, ... Cellars or pits are favorite placea in which to grow mushrooms. ..."

8. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"mushrooms.—Certain fungi growing wild or in cultivated soils and having an expanded top on a hooded stem are known as mushrooms. The common form of mushroom ..."

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