Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being fungous; also, a fungous excrescence.
  • noun In pathology, proud flesh.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being fungous.
  • noun A fungal growth.

Etymologies

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Compare French fungosité, fongosité.

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Examples

  • As soon as a roof starts to leak, the decay, the collapse, the inner fungosity take charge.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • As soon as a roof starts to leak, the decay, the collapse, the inner fungosity take charge.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Hood demonstrates how a fungus can spread its fungosity

    IGN TV 2008

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