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Meanings of mushroom cloud in English
Mushroom-shaped cloud produced by a large (often nuclear) explosion.
Related terms
Portuguese
nuvem de cogumelo A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
Usage of mushroom cloud in English
1
These generally condense into microscopic radioactive particles in the explosion's mushroom cloud.
2
The mushroom cloud that has risen over American democracy is a question mark.
3
The result won't be a mushroom cloud, but it will still get noticed.
4
On the screen, a mushroom cloud rose over a vast and empty sea.
5
Or perhaps they'd simply been pushed back by a mushroom cloud of testosterone.
6
Ben Franklin, staring to the south, said, I don't see any mushroom cloud.
7
The mushroom cloud rose to over sixty thousand feet, dwarfing the retreating bomber.
8
A massive mushroom cloud explosion has rocked Lebanon's capital city Beirut.
9
It explodes in a nuclear bomb-like mushroom cloud and creates a massive shockwave.
10
Initial news items spoke of a mushroom cloud up to 4 km in diameter.
11
A roiling red-and-black mushroom cloud rose behind us, hundreds of feet into the air.
12
But any other way is instant mushroom cloud, game over.
13
I stood and watched the mushroom cloud for a while.
14
The mushroom cloud over Miami emptied Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale.
15
Videos posted online showed a column of smoke followed by a large mushroom cloud.
16
Delphi, his home for millennia, lie under a growing red and black mushroom cloud.
Translations for mushroom cloud
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