What is "mushroomy"

Usage examples of "mushroomy".

When he removed his underwear, the lifeboat filled with a mushroomy smell.

Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico.

A damp, rich, mushroomy smell, that probably, under other circumstances, would have been pleasant.

Frosted leaves crunched under his feet, the occasional twig whipped his face or brushed his shoulder, and everywhere the decaying mushroomy smell of the woodland assailed him.

Instead, the threat revealed itself by that musky, mushroomy cold-meat smell.

At second glance, she saw that the mushroomy cap was actually some sort of dough.

The cool, raw air of the wood had a mushroomy fragrance, and the mosquitoes, whose buzzing was drowned by the roar of battle, furiously attacked the faces, necks and hands of the airmen.

The low ceilings, the distant drip of water, and the mushroomy smell of mold and excrement gave it all away.

Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico.