• n. 蘑菇，傘菌；蘑菇形物體；暴發戶
• adj. 蘑菇的；蘑菇形的；迅速生長的
• vi. 迅速增加；采蘑菇；迅速生長

來自古法語meisseron,蘑菇，可能來自moss,苔蘚，潮濕的地方。即在潮濕的地方長出來的菌類。拼寫俗詞源化。

mushroom (n.)

mid-15c., muscheron, musseroun (attested 1327 as a surname, John Mussheron), from Anglo-French musherun, Old French meisseron (11c., Modern French mousseron), perhaps from Late Latin mussirionem (nominative mussirio), though this might as well be borrowed from French. Barnhart says "of uncertain origin." Klein calls it "a word of pre-Latin origin, used in the North of France;" OED says it usually is held to be a derivative of French mousse "moss" (from Germanic), and Weekley agrees, saying it is properly "applied to variety which grows in moss," but Klein says they have "nothing in common." For the final -m Weekley refers to grogram, vellum, venom. Modern spelling is from 1560s.

Used figuratively for something or someone that makes a sudden appearance in full form from 1590s. In reference to the shape of clouds after explosions, etc., it is attested from 1916, though the actual phrase mushroom cloud does not appear until 1955.

mushroom (v.)

"expand or increase rapidly," 1741, from mushroom (n.). Related: Mushroomed; mushrooming.

1. cream of mushroom soup

奶油蘑菇湯

來自《權威詞典》

2. a cheese and mushroom omelette

奶酪蘑菇蛋餅

來自《權威詞典》

3. a ham and mushroom pizza

火腿蘑菇比薩餅

來自《權威詞典》

4. This kind of mushroom is edible, but that kind is not.

這種蘑菇吃得, 那種吃不得.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. Birmingham is a mushroom.

伯明翰是個迅猛發展的城市.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》