Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a mushroom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a mushroom; cylindrical with a broader convex head: specifically applied to certain papillæ of the tongue, distinguished from
filiform and circumvallate. Also fungilliform. Seepapilla .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.
- adjective (Anat.) numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape of a
mushroom .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The novel's eponymous Finch is a detective, and the novel opens with a bizarre double murder, one person and one fungiform.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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The novel's eponymous Finch is a detective, and the novel opens with a bizarre double murder, one person and one fungiform.
Jeff Vandermeer, Finch (209) Adam Roberts 2010
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Supertasters are endowed with far more fungiform papillae than nontasters, she reports, as one can discover by simple experiment: Paint your tongue with blue food coloring, shine a flashlight on it, and look in a mirror.
Tastes and Pleasures 2007
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Those that contain the most taste buds are the fungiform papillae, so called because when magnified they look like little mushrooms.
Tastes and Pleasures 2007
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You can see fungiform papillae by just taking ordinary supermarket blue food colouring, swabbing it on your tongue, and looking at your tongue in the mirror.
Reader request Week 2007 #2: Coffee, or Lack Thereof « Whatever 2007
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In terms of age, Armillaria is a fungiform Methuselah.
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- Exterior glass bulb ellipsoid or fungiform transparent or inside-coated with or without reflecting layer
5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991
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In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Interspersed with these are the fungiform papillæ.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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These are so called because they consist of a fungiform papilla surrounded by a fold of mucous membrane, presenting the appearance of being walled around.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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