2007-01-09 06:23:20 · 20 answers · asked by Steph M 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
hmmm.... cause mushrooms are mushy..... and since they have the little hang over..... they look like a room. hence... the name mushroom.... a little mushy room....hahahahaaha
2007-01-09 06:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kate 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
mushrooms at the instant are not called mushrooms. this is in simple terms an English expression representing those 'mushrooms' :D if that's clever. Language is arbirtrary. this is artificially made. the words have no connection to the article, theory, theory , or something. (properly there are some words that kinda do - which includes OUCH, or AWWW.. yet those arent actual words are they.
2016-10-30 10:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mushroom is an above-ground fruiting body (that is, a spore-producing structure) of a fungus, having a shaft and a cap. By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae. In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, etc. The technical term for the spore-producing structure of "true" mushrooms is the basidiocarp.
Say Mycelium ten times fast...
2007-01-09 06:42:23 · answer #3 · answered by sapboi 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
mushroom
1440 (attested as a surname, John Mussheron, from 1327), from Anglo-Fr. musherun, perhaps from L.L. mussirionem (nom. mussirio), though this may as well be borrowed from Fr. Barnhart says "of uncertain origin." Klein calls it "a word of pre-Latin origin, used in the North of France;" OED says it usually is held to be a derivative of Fr. mousse "moss," and Weekley agrees, saying it is properly "applied to variety which grows in moss." For the final -m he refers to grogram, vellum, venom. Used figuratively for "sudden appearance in full form" from 1590s. The verb meaning "expand or increase rapidly" is first recorded 1903. In ref. to the shape of clouds after explosions, etc., it is attested from 1916, though the actual phrase mushroom cloud does not appear until 1958.
2007-01-09 06:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by endrshadow 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they were dicovered by the earl of mushroom!
2007-01-11 04:32:05 · answer #5 · answered by azman5998 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actual generic name is mycelium- pronounced my-sell-ee-um - which in common usage became 'mushroom'.
And don't listen to those jeerers - it is not a stupid question!
2007-01-09 06:43:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
because the guy who discovered them had a last Name of Mushroom... why is any word what it is?
2007-01-09 06:28:51 · answer #7 · answered by kissybertha 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Was just the word of the time. Why's a diary called a diary and a dairy a dairy and not a diary a dairy? Mix-up time.
2007-01-09 06:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by Xan 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
because they are grown in a little hut or shed and theres not mush room lol
2007-01-12 02:22:53 · answer #9 · answered by MAD FEMALE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they look more like mushrooms than peaches. Or they would be called peaches.
2007-01-09 06:30:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
[Alteration (influenced by room) of Middle English musheron, from Anglo-Norman moscheron, musherum, from Old French mousseron, from Medieval Latin musariō, musariōn-.]
2007-01-09 06:31:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋