mushroom

キノコ

土や木に生え、短い柄の上に丸い傘を持つことが多い菌類。

やさしい英語で： A fungus that grows on soil or wood, often with a round top on a short stem.

• A mushroom grew beside the tree.
• We found mushrooms in the damp wood.
• Some mushrooms are poisonous.

よく使う表現： wild mushroom, edible mushroom, poisonous mushroom, mushroom species

キノコ

菌類の地上に出る部分。多くは傘と柄があり、食べられるものもある。

やさしい英語で： The part of a fungus that grows above ground, often with a cap and stem; some are eaten.

• I added mushrooms to the soup.
• The mushroom had a wide brown cap.
• She sliced three mushrooms for the sauce.

類義語： shroom, mushrump

よく使う表現： mushroom cap, mushroom soup, sliced mushroom, mushroom stem

急増する、急成長する

非常に速く成長したり、数や量が増えたりすること。

やさしい英語で： To grow or increase very quickly.

• Costs mushroomed last year.
• The village has mushroomed into a busy town.
• Online shops are mushrooming across the country.

使い方： mushroom into something (The small dispute mushroomed into a national debate.); mushroom from A to B (The population mushroomed from two thousand to twenty thousand.)

類義語： expand, balloon, grow rapidly

反対語： shrink

よく使う表現： mushroom into something, mushroom overnight, mushroom rapidly

キノコを採る

野山で食べられるキノコを採ること。

やさしい英語で： To collect edible fungi in the countryside.

• We mushroom in these woods every autumn.
• They went mushrooming after the rain.
• She mushroomed with her grandfather as a child.

よく使う表現： mushroom in woods, mushroom with someone

キノコ形の、キノコ状の

丸い傘のあるキノコの形をしている、または育ち方や感触がキノコに似ている様子。

やさしい英語で： Shaped like a fungus with a round cap, or similar to one in growth or feel.

• A mushroom cloud rose above the explosion.
• The smoke took on a mushroom shape.
• The town's mushroom growth surprised its older residents.

よく使う表現： mushroom cloud, mushroom shape, mushroom growth