mushroomy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "the mushroomy smell of the old cellar"
- "Dried mushrooms are really mushroomier than the canned and very simple to use; they are used a great deal in Chinese and Italian cooking."
- "It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness."
- "Japanese may think of matsutake as the preeminent, mushroomiest mushroom of them all, but in the West, it is the poisonously beautiful, bright red, psychotropic, white-dotted member of the genus Amanita, Amanita muscaria, that is the much-cartooned representative ur-mushroom."
- "Near-synonyms: mushroomoid, mushroomlike; fungiform"
- "a mushroomy outline of a passing cloud"
Etymology
From mushroom + -y.