biscuit vs mushroom

biscuit

noun
  • A light brown colour. 

  • A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. 

  • The head. 

  • A puck (hockey puck). 

  • A form of unglazed earthenware. 

  • A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear. 

  • A cracker. 

  • A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack. 

  • A handgun, especially a revolver. 

  • A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet. 

  • The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils. 

mushroom

noun
  • Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly. 

  • A fungus producing such fruiting bodies. 

  • A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab. 

  • Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood). 

  • Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking. 

  • Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards. 

verb
  • To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target. 

  • To form the shape of a mushroom. 

  • To grow quickly to a large size. 

  • To gather mushrooms. 

adj
  • Having characteristics like those of a mushroom, for example in shape or appearance, speed of growth, or texture. 

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