mushroom

• n. 蘑菇，伞菌；蘑菇形物体；暴发户
• adj. 蘑菇的；蘑菇形的；迅速生长的
• vi. 迅速增加；采蘑菇；迅速生长

来自古法语meisseron,蘑菇，可能来自moss,苔藓，潮湿的地方。即在潮湿的地方长出来的菌类。拼写俗词源化。

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

奶油蘑菇汤

来自《权威词典》

2. a cheese and mushroom omelette

奶酪蘑菇蛋饼

来自《权威词典》

3. a ham and mushroom pizza

火腿蘑菇比萨饼

来自《权威词典》

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

这种蘑菇吃得, 那种吃不得.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Birmingham is a mushroom.

伯明翰是个迅猛发展的城市.

来自《简明英汉词典》