mushroom

Mushroom has 2 syllables: mush · room.

noun. A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb).

noun. Any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium.

noun. Common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool).

noun. Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi.