Mushroom vs. Swamp — What's the Difference?

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.

A swamp is a forested wetland. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment.

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

An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.

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

A lowland region saturated with water.

The usually aboveground fruiting body of any of such fungi.

A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables

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

To drench in or cover with or as if with water.

Something shaped like one of these fungi.

To inundate or burden; overwhelm

To multiply, grow, or expand rapidly

(Nautical) To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

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

To become full of water or sink.

To collect wild mushrooms.

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

Relating to, consisting of, or containing mushrooms

A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.

Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth or evanescence

(figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

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

To drench or fill with water.

A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.

(figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

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

(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

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

To plunge or sink into a swamp.

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

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

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

Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Ellipsis of mushroom cloud

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

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

To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

To grow quickly to a large size.

Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

To gather mushrooms.

A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables;

To form the shape of a mushroom.

Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;

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

Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;

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;