mushrooming

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noun

The act of gathering mushrooms.

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Meanings

nounmushrooming (countable and uncountable, plural mushroomings)

plural mushroomings

  1. countableuncountableThe act of gathering mushrooms.

    I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.

    1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren
    1 more example

    Often, on their mushrooming trips, the Ickabog and Daisy would draw a little ahead of the others, having their own private conversation. “What d'you think they're talking about?” Martha whispered to the two boys, as they searched the bog for the small white mushrooms the Ickabog particularly liked.

    2020, J. K. Rowling, “Chapter 57: Daisy's Plan”, in The Ickabog, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 234
  2. countableuncountableA rapid or explosive growth.
  3. countableuncountableThe formation of a mushroomlike shape.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mushroom

    The enormous growth of the railway during that period ran in parallel with mushrooming housing developments along the lines.

    2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 57

Translations

Czech houbaření
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Estonian seenekorjamine
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Polish grzybobranie, grzybing
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Cite this entry
APA

mushrooming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mushrooming

MLA

“mushrooming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mushrooming. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mushrooming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mushrooming.

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