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To grow quickly in size or extent
“From that point, music and dance ensembles began to mushroom within the community.”
To protrude or extend outwardly
“Dembeli and his companions saw a beautiful cloud of smoke rise above the bridge and begin to mushroom out as it met a gentle tropical breeze.”
To become fully grown or developed
“I had hoped that the business relationship would mushroom into a major account, and it did just that.”
To appear suddenly
“The bewildered foreign faces staring from the first-class carriages light up with wonder as the hillsides on either side of the track suddenly mushroom into a flower garden of pink, white and yellow paper umbrellas.”
To explode or cause to explode
To grow strongly and vigorously
Lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen
Plural for any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil
“In Japan. cloud ear is highly prized as an edible mushroom, known as arage kikurage.”
Plural for a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids
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