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Webster 1913 Edition
Mushroom
Mush′room
,Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to mushrooms;
as,
. mushroom
catchup2.
Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial;
as,
. mushroom
citiesWebster 1828 Edition
Mushroom
MUSH'ROOM
, n.1.
The common name of numerous cryptogamian plants of the natural order of Fungi. Some of them are esculent, others poisonous. Mushrooms grow on dunghills and in moist rich ground,and often spring up in a short time. The origin of man, in the view of the atheist, is the same with that of the mushroom.
2.
An upstart; one that rises suddenly from a low condition in life.