Mushroom



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 蘑菇; v. 雨后春笋般迅速发展
• ［英］ 蘑菇 ( any of several types of fungus which grow and develop very quickly) 雨后春笋般迅速发展 ( grow and develop fast)
• ［例］ new blocks of flats and offices mushrooming all over the city

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English musheron, from Anglo-French musherum, musseron, from Late Latin mussirion-, mussirio
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. an enlarged complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus (as a basidiomycete) that consists typically of a stem bearing a pileus; especially one that is edible
  • b. fungus
• 2. upstart
• 3. something resembling a mushroom

II. intransitive verb

• Date: 1893
• 1.
  • a. to well up and spread out laterally from a central source
  • b. to become enlarged or extended ; grow
• 2. to collect wild mushrooms
• 3. to spring up suddenly or multiply rapidly

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