Word Finder - mushrooms

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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.

Mushrooms are equally earthy and hearty.

In cases of poisoning by mushrooms immediate medical advice should be secured.

A gray squirrel runs away from a group of mushrooms.

The ridge here took on a fantastical form with gigantic snow mushrooms, through routes, massive icicles and bottomless voids.

Our starters of goose liver risotto with wild mushrooms and wild boar pancakes in cream sauce, were both well-executed and full of flavor.

Dinner in the very average restaurant, Emer being served an almost inedible meal of tinned mushrooms with a mountain of boiled vegetables.

Remove from the heat and add the mushrooms, apple slices, cranberry jelly and bay leaf and season well.

For main course I chose Roast chicken with herbs, wild mushrooms, parsley and olive oil mash (£ 7.50 ).

Cut the courgettes and mushrooms into slices, the broccoli into florets, the cabbage into fine shreds and the carrot into thick matchsticks.

Add cream and brandy to pan when sliced mushrooms are cooked.

Also, black olives can be replaced with finely chopped button mushrooms.

The last two years has seen a dramatic increase in the number of shops selling magic mushrooms from only a handful to over 400.

The reason for the new laws is to stop the commercial sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Do not feed wild mushrooms to people who don't want to eat them.

Steak and chips 1 grilled rump steak with 75g low-fat oven chips, grilled mushrooms and salad with fat-free dressing.

In another area he has started to grow shiitake mushrooms under a graceful canopy, a living tunnel of woven willow trees.

I had a terrine of confit chicken with shitake mushrooms, baby leeks and apple chutney.

Everything from fish to fruit, vegetables, spices and dried porcini mushrooms is sold here.

Two cards that lineman oregon guard portobello mushrooms so ionosphere can emit.

Each cap is about 1cm across, much like small oyster mushrooms.

Powell goes on to look at the evidence that the Maya also used psilocybin mushrooms.

The other 2, who presented 10 days after consumption of the mushrooms, developed severe interstitial nephritis and did not recover renal function.

Garden Burger A veggie burger made from peppers, mushrooms and pecan nuts.

A visiting journalist mentioned Tropical Wholefoods to women who were growing oyster mushrooms near the Rwandan border but having problems selling them fresh.

Then a layer of mushrooms chopped fine, then a layer of minced parsley.

It is vegan and based on tofu (soya bean curd ), miso (fermented soya paste ), mushrooms and garlic.

You grow the mushrooms or you go mushroom picking.

Think melting mushrooms, sticky ribs, grilled pineapple with chili syrup...

Recipes Nigel Slater autumn special Exclusive to OFM, delicious spicy ribs, baked mushrooms, juicy plum crumble.

Favorites include succulent prawns fried in good olive oil with chili & garlic, & delicious grilled polenta topped with lightly fried wild mushrooms.

This recipe is a traditional Italian risotto with roasted mushrooms.

Bacon, pork sausages, Mushrooms, Tomato [cooked or raw] Eggs; - boiled, poached, scrambled or fried.

Mushrooms, one of my favorite foods, are a good source of the antioxidant selenium as well as potassium and B vitamins.

Lift 2 of the mushrooms onto each slice of bread and pile a small handful of parsley sprigs on top of each.

Mother Nature - freshly picked magic mushrooms, poppies, fly agaric toadstools, datura, morning glory seeds.

For starters, we had spring rolls, prawn crackers, sesame toasts, deep-fried mushrooms and chicken wings.

However, you can still add any other toppings, like onions, mushrooms or cheese.

Try other tasty toppings with your cheese like flaked tuna and sweetcorn, mushrooms, and diced lean ham or turkey.

Many people are afraid to gather wild mushrooms, probably because they are quite rightly wary of picking poisonous ones.

I pass an old woman with massive buttocks pushing a large wheelbarrow laden with mushrooms.

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.

The beds produce mushrooms in about six weeks after this spawning.

On the tray was a bottle of herb wine, different kinds of vodka, pickled mushrooms, rye cakes made with buttermilk, honey in the comb, still mead and sparkling mead, apples, nuts (raw and roasted), and nut-and-honey sweets.

Just as "Uncle's" pickled mushrooms, honey, and cherry brandy had seemed to her the best in the world, so also that song, at that moment, seemed to her the acme of musical delight.

Natasha with animated and excited face was telling him how she had gone to look for mushrooms the previous summer and had lost her way in the big forest.

The pigeon breasts rested on a pillow of ravioli of wild mushrooms.

This recipe is a traditional Italian Risotto with roasted mushrooms.

A few groups form large sporulating colonies (mushrooms, toadstools, brackets etc).

I tell you, they 're sprouting like mushrooms.

Both our choices of mushrooms with cashew nuts and tofu in black bean sauce were excellent and full of flavor.