Cep vs. Mushroom — What's the Difference?

See porcini mushroom.

A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing.

An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).

Any of various fungi that produce a fleshy fruiting body, especially one consisting of a stalk with an umbrella-shaped cap.

Any of such fungi that are edible, especially the widely cultivated species Agaricus bisporus, which includes the button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms.

The usually aboveground fruiting body of any of such fungi.

One of these fruiting bodies that produce hallucinations when ingested. Also called magic mushroom.

Something shaped like one of these fungi.

To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly

To swell or spread out into a shape similar to a mushroom.

To collect wild mushrooms.

Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence

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

A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

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

Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.

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

One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

(figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.

Ellipsis of mushroom cloud

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

To grow quickly to a large size.

To gather mushrooms.

To form the shape of a mushroom.

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

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

To grow or expand rapidly.

To grow so much and so rapidly as to change qualitatively; used with into; as, a minor border skirmish mushroomed into a full-blown war.

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

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

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

Fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi

Pick or gather mushrooms;

Grow and spread fast;