- mushroom-shaped cloud
- nouna large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)• Syn: ↑mushroom, ↑mushroom cloud• Hypernyms: ↑cloud
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
mushroom-shaped cloud
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