n.
The common English mushroom, Agaricus campestris, Linn., N.O. Fungi, aboundsin Australia, and there are many other indigenous ediblespecies.
·adj Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. II. Mushroom ·noun One who rises suddenly...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A person or family suddenly raised to riches and eminence: an allusion to that fungus, which starts ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·adj Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a m...