Fungus
['fʌŋgəs] or ['fʌŋɡəs]
Definition
(noun.) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia.
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Definition
(n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
(n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Spongy excrescence.[2]. (Bot.) Flowerless plant (as the mushroom, toadstool, &c.), cryptogamous plant.
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Definition
n. one of the lowest of the great groups of cellular cryptogams including mushrooms toadstools mould &c.: proud-flesh formed on wounds:—pl. Fungi (fun′jī) or Funguses (fung′gus-ez).—adjs. Fung′al Fungā′ceous like a fungus; Fun′gic (′jik) Fun′giform having the form of a fungus; Fungiv′orous feeding on mushrooms; Fung′oid resembling a mushroom.—ns. Fungol′ogist a student of fungi; Fungol′ogy the science of fungi; Fungos′ity quality of being fungous.—adj. Fung′ous of or like fungus: soft: spongy: growing suddenly: ephemeral.
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Examples
- But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When it is heavy, rainy weather, they all come in, wet through; and at such times the vapours of the court are like those of a fungus-pit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is no fungus growth on the redwoods neither are the redwoods attacked by boring worms or other insects so common to other species of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On the night in question, I was sitting on the hidden seat reclaimed from fungi and mould, listening to what seemed the far-off sounds of the city. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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