What does mushroom mean?
Word: Mushroom
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Mushroom means a soft living thing shaped like a little umbrella, with a round cap on a short stem. Some kinds are cooked and eaten.
How do you spell mushroom?
Syllables: mush - room
Tricky part: The second part is room with two o's. Children often hear rum and write mushrum.
Watch out for: mushrum, mushrom
Memory tip: A mushroom needs room to grow, so the end is the word room.
Mushroom in a sentence
Example 1: Papa added mushroom to the pizza.
Example 2: We found tiny mushrooms under the old mango tree.
Example 3: Mushroom soup is Grandma's favourite.
Fun Fact
A mushroom is not a plant. It belongs to a different group of living things called fungi, which cannot make their own food from sunlight.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell Spies
Choose the option with no spelling errors:
a) mushroom, carrott, potaito, onion
b) mushroom, carot, potato, oinon
c) mushroom, carrot, potatoe, onoin
d) mushroom, carrot, potato, onion
Show answer
d) mushroom, carrot, potato, onion. Mushroom is spelt the same in every list, so the other vegetables decide it: carrot has rr, potato has no e, and onion is o-n-i-o-n.
Spellacadabra
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
m_ _hroom
a) as
b) os
c) us
d) uc
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c) us. The first part is mush, with u and s, as in mushy peas.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
hoomsrum
a) a small green insect that hops in the grass
b) a round fruit with a hard brown shell
c) a tall plant with yellow flowers that face the sun
d) a living thing with a round cap on a short stem
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d) a living thing with a round cap on a short stem. Hoomsrum unscrambles to mushroom.
Word Champ
In which option are the given words arranged in alphabetical order?
1. muffin 2. mushroom 3. mustard
a) 213
b) 123
c) 312
d) 132
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b) 123. All three start with mu. F comes before s, so muffin is first; then mushroom (s, h) comes before mustard (s, t).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Mushrooms often pop up ___.
a) on ice
b) in hot sand
c) after rain
d) in the sea
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c) after rain
2. Why should you never eat a wild mushroom you find?
a) it may not be safe to eat
b) it is too hard
c) it is too heavy
d) it has no colour
Show answer
a) it may not be safe to eat
