mushroom cloud

1. 1.

   a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

   Synonymsmushroommushroom-shaped cloud

   Broadercloud

Questions about mushroom cloud

What does mushroom cloud mean?

mushroom cloud means "a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)".

What is another word for mushroom cloud?

Close synonyms include mushroom, mushroom-shaped cloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mushroom cloud a common word?

mushroom cloud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.