mushrooming
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mushrooming
- 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.
 
 
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mushrooming (countable and uncountable, plural mushroomings)
- 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.
 
 
- Rapid or explosive growth.
- The formation of a mushroom-like shape.
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