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Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).

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Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul.

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• mushrump
• shroom

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A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

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Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.

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Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.

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A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.

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One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

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Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.

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To grow quickly to a large size.

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The town’s population mushroomed from 10,000 to 110,000 in five years.

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To gather mushrooms.

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We used to go mushrooming in the forest every weekend.

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To form the shape of a mushroom.

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Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture.

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mushroom cloud

Star dishesat my local restaurant include the mushroom napoleon, red snapper with a semolina crust, and braised lamb shank.

The amanitas include some of the most showy representatives of the Agaricineae or mushroom order of fungi.

This grows under oaks, in clusters - a most unusual character for the mushroom, and is said to be excellent for the table.

The common mushroom (Agaricus campestris) is propagated by spores, the fine black dust seen to be thrown off when a mature specimen is laid on white paper or a white dish; these give rise to what is known as the "spawn" or mycelium, which consists of whitish threads permeating dried dung or similar substances, and which, when planted in a proper medium, runs through the mass, and eventually develops the fructification known as the mushroom.

Sandwiches range from portobello mushroom to chopped salmon steak.

For lunch, with dozens of items on the menu, particular local favorites are the mushroom risotto or the smoked trout insalate (salad).

Fresh manure should be avoided, but the remains from an old hot-bed or mushroom bed may be incorporated.

When a mushroom is perfectly ripe and the gills are brown-black in colour, they throw down a thick dusty deposit of fine brown-black or purple-black spores; it is essential to note the colour.

A variety of salads, such as the warm wild mushroom salad with herbs and pecorino, make great starters.

It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

Like the mushroom, it grows in short open pastures and amongst the short grass of open roadsides; sometimes it appears on lawns, but it never occurs in woods or in damp shady places.

During 1905 the town of Goldfield had a period of mushroom growth, then quieted, and finally revived to a healthy development.

The wild mushroom stuffed raviolis are served with a roasted red pepper sauce to die for.

The food is as top quality as the surroundings with appetizers such as exotic mushroom napoleon setting the stage for entrees like the double-cut white marble pork chop.

The mushroom usually grown in gardens or hot-beds, in cellars, sheds, &c., is a distinct variety known as Agaricus hortensis.

On being cut or broken the flesh of a true mushroom remains white or nearly so, the flesh of the coarser horse mushroom changes to buff or sometimes to dark brown.

The parts of a mushroom consist chiefly of stem and cap; the stem has a clothy ring round its middle, and the cap is furnished underneath with numerous radiating coloured gills.

This spawn may be obtained from old pastures, or decayed mushroom beds, and is purchased from nurserymen in the form of bricks charged with the mycelium, and technically known as mushroom spawn.

The mushroom is a semi-deliquescent fungus which rapidly falls into putridity in decay, whilst the champignon dries up into a leathery substance in the sun, but speedily revives and takes its original form again after the first shower.

A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 inches.

The most complete and symmetrical grass rings are formed by Marasmius oreades, the fairy ring champignon, but the mushroom and many other species occasionally form rings, both on grass-lands and in woods.

You grow the mushrooms or you go mushroom picking.

Dinner generally consists of roast chicken, but there is a vegetarian option available consisting of a stuffed mushroom cap.

Mulch with spent mushroom compost in July-August when the new flower buds are being formed.

Like last time, the mushroom pakora was poor, plenty of tasty batter, but very little mushroom.

Seamus also likes a yeast spread, or mushroom pate spread on.

Wild mushroom & goat's cheese puff pastry is a typical vegetarian option.

The passages sometimes extend over several miles, the beds sometimes occupying over 20 m., and, as there are many proprietors of cellars, the produce of mushrooms is so large that not only is Paris fully supplied, but vast quantities are forwarded to the different large towns of Europe; the mushrooms are not allowed to reach the fully expanded condition, but are gathered in a large button state, the whole growth of the mushroom being removed and the hole left in the manure covered with fine earth.

In the current preliminary study, 61 men with prostate cancer in various stages were given a shiitake mushroom extract for six months.

This includes the production of shiitake mushroom logs, apple juice and cider from unsprayed orchards planted with traditional English varieties.

A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 in.

To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly pithy.

I (I) represents a section through an infant mushroom, (2) a mature example, and (3) a lon g itudinal section through a fully developed mushroom.

A point of great importance is to be noted in the attachment of the gills near the stem at 0, P; the gills in the true mushroom are (as shown) usually more or less free from the stem, they never grow boldly against it or run down it; they may sometimes just touch the spot where the stem joins the bottom of the cap, but never more; there is usually a slight channel, as at r, all round the top of the stem.

The spores on germination make a white felted mat, more or less dense, of mycelium; this, when compacted with dry, half-decomposed dung, is the mushroom spawn of gardeners.

Besides these there are numerous other black-gilled species which find a place in baskets - some species far too small to bear any resemblance to a mushroom, others large and deliquescent, generally belonging to the stumpand dung-borne genus Coprinus.

The buffgills are far apart (v), and in this they greatly differ from the somewhat crowded gills of the mushroom; the junction of the gills with the stem (w) also differs in character from the similar junction in the mushroom.

Sow tomatoes and cucumbers for a winter crop. Make up mushroom beds.

Atropine is often of value as an antidote, as in poisoning by pilocarpine, muscarine (mushroom poisoning), prussic acid, &c.

Fdcherfalte); another variant of the same form is the mushroom fold (Fr.

Wild mushroom ravioli is a tightly packed pasta parcel, its earthy filling pleasantly matched with a frothy borlotti bean cappuccino.

For vegetarians, a stuffed flat mushroom with ricotta and spinach with a spicy tomato sauce is on offer.

Mom - because there are quite a few veggie dishes that are n't just mushroom stroganoff.

In addition the Congress was run in conjunction with the Dutch mushroom exhibition of equipment and sundries associated with the industry.

My main course was chicken in a mushroom and tarragon cream sauce, with an excellent filet of good quality chicken.

Fill the tartlets with the tomato mixture, followed by the mushroom mixture and top with a poached egg.

I moved on to the filet of beef with a delicious wild mushroom and thyme sauce.

Click Here Further Details Mushroom toxins An account of various mushroom toxins ingested as food, leading to mushroom poisoning, or toadstool poisoning.

Fran 's suggestions are steak and mushroom pie and Banoffi pie, sticky toffee and banana pudding, not everybody 's cup of tea.

The Greek menu comes with a great selection of veggie dishes, much more than the usual mushroom risotto at least !