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mushroom poisoning

mushroom poisoning

4.0
A sickness caused by eating poisonous wild mushrooms
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌʃruːm ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : intoxicación por hongos
  • He was hospitalized after suffering mushroom poisoning from eating wild fungi.

Examples

  • Mushroom poisoning can cause renal and liver failure.

  • Severe mushroom poisoning can result in renal and liver failure.

  • Doctors warned hikers about the dangers of mushroom poisoning in the region.

  • The symptoms of mushroom poisoning can include nausea, vomiting, and confusion.

  • Avoiding mushroom poisoning is essential for foragers.

  • The number of mushroom poisonings has increased this year.

  • Most remarkably, this herb has been shown to treat Amanita mushroom poisoning better than mainstream medical treatments.

Synonyms

poisoning
vsmushroom poisoning
  • Specialized
144 3.9

A serious sickness caused by taking a harmful chemical into the body

is limited to harm from eating specific poisonous fungi

Surface Forms

mushroom poisoning singular
mushroom poisonings plural

Morphology

mushroom + poisoning

The meaning is directly compositional: 'poisoning' is a toxic condition and 'mushroom' specifies the cause, so together they mean poisoning caused by mushrooms. This simple noun+noun causal pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Mushroom poisoning comes from the very simple, real image of someone eating the wrong mushroom that has poison and suffering poisoning. So the phrase means 'becoming very ill after eating poisonous mushrooms'.