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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

mushroom XV. Late ME. musseroun, musheron, by assim. musherom (XVI) — (O)F. mousseron — late L. mussiriō, -ōn-.
Hence vb. XVIII (once, trans.), XIX (intr.).

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