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n. a 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]
Usage examples of "mushroom-shaped cloud".
He made the motion of pressing a button, and the entire family shuddered at the thought of a mushroom-shaped cloud hanging over Queen's Lynn.
With a terrific mushroom-shaped cloud of fire, the Francis Case Bridge exploded when it was hit by the wreckage, but it stopped the careening hulk from tumbling any farther.
The plateau above the Land fortress wasn't visible from here, but the mushroom-shaped cloud that climbed up over the horizon was.
There he saw a mushroom-shaped cloud rising which could only have been caused by an atomic explosion.
A tall mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke boiled up into the sky until it reached higher than the hilltop.
This painting depicted the same scene as the previous panel, but the time was more than an hour later, an hour after the seventy-five-kiloton nuclear bomb hidden in a sound truck near Trajan's Column had exploded and sent its hideous mushroom-shaped cloud into the skies above the city.
Krysty stated, watching the mushroom-shaped cloud rise into the sky.
More smoke appeared, rising in a roiling ball that soon formed a mushroom-shaped cloud.
He saw a giant fireball, awesome and terrifying, with a mushroom-shaped cloud rising rapidly above it.
Carefully emerging among the muddy plants, the dripping explorers saw that the far embankment was a swirling hellstorm of smoke and fire, with a mushroom-shaped cloud rising into the sky.
A big flash, then a monster sonic wave, and finally a gigantic mushroom-shaped cloud going up, up into the sky.
For long moments the fountain of air was a mushroom-shaped cloud, then it subsided, raining down bits.