Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or being a fungus.
- noun A fungus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the appearance or character of a fungus; hence, sporadic.
- In pathology, characterized by morbid growths resembling a fungus, especially those of a malignant character: as, a fungoid disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a
fungus . - noun A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling fungi
Etymologies
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Examples
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True, he had beheld shooting stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the phosphorescence of fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood - fires and of blazing candle-nuts; yet what were flame and blaze and glow when they had flamed and blazed and glowed?
THE RED ONE 2010
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Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms.
Chapter 25 2010
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They have a parboiled appearance, are afflicted with hang-nails, while the nails are broken and discoloured, and the edges of the quick seem to be assuming a fungoid sort of growth.
Chapter 11 2010
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This is not a horror story but I urge you not to shudder at Forster's vision of future humans reduced to fungoid growths by their slavish dependence on technology.
Archive 2010-04-01 Eeleen Lee 2010
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This is not a horror story but I urge you not to shudder at Forster's vision of future humans reduced to fungoid growths by their slavish dependence on technology.
Obscure Horrors Eeleen Lee 2010
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Something that smelled like rotting flesh on burned toast was shuffling toward them, fungoid arms extended, eyeballs dangling from the ends of raw, frayed strings.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Having "died" while battling that fungoid creature, and still mourning the loss of Nick Cutter, Jenny felt it was time for a fresh start.
Archive 2009-06-14 Toby O'B 2009
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The richest vegetation discovered on the "Nimrod" expedition consisted of sheets of a lichen or fungoid growth, covering the bottom of the freshwater lakes near Cape Royds, and visible through the clear ice throughout the many months when the water is frozen.
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Hay, loyal and sensitive, tried to preserve the ease between them by insisting that his office meant nothing—that it was, as Adams put it, “pure fungoid, and not a part of his nature.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
slumry commented on the word fungoid
A fungoid little face appeared out of the leafpile and bit my finger when I was composting. (no, no, I was not composting--the leaves were)
June 15, 2007
yarb commented on the word fungoid
...clothes smeared with winch grease and mud from the ocean floor, wet, fungoid, and torn...
- Mark Richard, Fishboy, p. 138
June 11, 2008