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mushrooming

noun mushroomings

  1. countable, uncountable The act of gathering mushrooms. I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.
  2. countable, uncountable A rapid or explosive growth.
  3. countable, uncountable The formation of a mushroomlike shape.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mushroom The enormous growth of the railway during that period ran in parallel with mushrooming housing developments along the lines.

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@misc{mushrooming_2026,
  title = {mushrooming},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mushrooming},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}