| mush | Meal (especially. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. Origin: Cf. Gael. Mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. Muos; akin to AS. & OS. Mos food, and prob, to E. Meat. See Meat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mushbite | A maxillomandibular record made by introducing a mass of soft wax into the patient's mouth and instructing the patient to bite into it to the desired degree; not a generally accepted procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mushroom | 1. <botany> An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-coloured, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn. Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous. 2. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. Origin: OE. Muscheron, OF. Mouscheron, F. Mousseron; perhaps fr. Mousse moss, of German origin. See Moss. 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup. 2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities. Mushroom anchor, an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls. <zoology> Mushroom coral, any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia. <botany> Mushroom spawn, the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom. Mushroom v. To grow or expand rapidly. Mushroom into to grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mushroom poisoning | Poisoning from ingestion of mushrooms, primarily from, but not restricted to, toxic varieties. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mushroom-headed | <botany> Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mushroom-worker's lung | <chest medicine> Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by inhalation of spores of the mold Thermopolyspora polyspora, Thermoactinomyces vulgaris, Micropolyspora faeni or Micromonospora vulgaris from contaminated mushrooms under cultivation or mushroom compost. (22 Sep 2002) |
| mushy | Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. "She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender." (G. Eliot) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |