mushrooming

English

Verb

mushrooming

1. present participle and gerund of mushroom
   • 2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 57:

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

Noun

mushrooming (countable and uncountable, plural mushroomings)

1. The act of gathering mushrooms.
   • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren:

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

2. Rapid or explosive growth.
3. The formation of a mushroom-like shape.

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