mushroom cloud

English

Noun

A closeup of the fireball and mushroom cloud from the Upshot-Knothole Grable atomic bomb.

mushroom cloud (plural mushroom clouds)

1. A large cloud of smoke, flame and debris that rises into the sky as a result of a large explosion, especially after a nuclear explosion, characterized by a long shaft rising from the ground into a much-larger or more-spread-out top, reminiscent of a mushroom in shape.
   • 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎^[1]:

     It's Christmas at ground zero / There's panic in the crowd / We can dodge debris / While we trim the tree / Underneath a mushroom cloud

Translations

mushroom-shaped cloud

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘑菇雲／蘑菇云 (zh) (móguyún)

• Czech: atomový hřib
• Danish: paddehatsky c, paddehattesky c
• Dutch: paddenstoelwolk f
• Finnish: sienipilvi (fi)
• French: champignon atomique (fr) m
• German: (general) Pilzwolke (de) f, (nuclear) Atompilz (de) m
• Japanese: 茸雲 (ja) (きのこぐも, kinokogumo)
• Mongolian: мөөг хэлбэртэй үүл (möög xelbertej üül)
• Polish: grzyb (pl) m, grzyb atomowy m
• Portuguese: nuvem de cogumelo f, nuvem cogumelo f, nuvem em cogumelo f
• Russian: грибови́дное о́блако n (gribovídnoje óblako)
• Spanish: nube de hongo f
• Swedish: svampmoln n