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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cloud of smoke and debris shaped like a mushroom, especially one created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cloud, specifically an ascending cloud, which spreads outward and downward at the top in a form resembling that of a mushroom.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large, mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke, flame and debris that rises into the sky as a result of a large explosion, especially after a nuclear explosion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a cloud of smoke rising and then spreading laterally to take on the shape of a mushroom -- caused by large fires or explosions, esp. nuclear explosions.

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “The rage blooms purple in my mind, amid a small mushroom cloud of pulverized grit and the burning smell of the sock that comes between the rock and the chockstone, melting with the friction heat of each strike.”

    Simon & Schuster: 127 Hours

  • “It is difficult to put the mushroom cloud back iato the steel casing.”

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  • reesetee Sure, sure, the color's all wrong. Still.... Feb 6, 2008

  • yarb Plus, they're the right colour to be mushrooms. If they were green, I'd go with broccoli cloud. Feb 6, 2008

  • reesetee Eh. They still look like broccoli to me. ;-> Feb 6, 2008

  • treeseed That makes me think of psilocybin when you talk about mushrooms in lieu of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge. Feb 6, 2008

  • kewpid The "fruit" the serpent offered Eve from the Tree of Knowledge has occasionally been represented as a mushroom! Feb 6, 2008

  • treeseed Kewpid agrees with Weart, quoted in Wikipedia article:
    Later in 1946, the Operation Crossroads nuclear bomb tests were described as having a "cauliflower" cloud, but a reporter present also spoke of "the mushroom, now the common symbol of the atomic age." Mushrooms have traditionally been associated both with life and death, food and poison, making them a more powerful symbolic connection than, say, the "cauliflower" cloud. Feb 6, 2008

  • kewpid Mushrooms and other fungi conjure a more sinister, insidious atmosphere. Broccoli is just well... broccoli. It's rather nice to eat. Feb 6, 2008

  • reesetee Funny, though. I always thought they looked more like broccoli. Feb 6, 2008

  • treeseed Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
    noun
    Date: circa 1909
    : a mushroom-shaped cloud; specifically : one caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon Feb 6, 2008

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