Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to or having the character of fungi; spongy.
- Characterized by the appearance of fungoid growths; as, a fungous disease.
- Growing or springing up suddenly, but not substantial or durable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of fungi; spongy.
- adjective Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
fungus ;fungal .
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- adjective of or relating to fungi
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Swells fungous from the rotten bough, grey mother of Pieria!
Second April 1921
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I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood."
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Baillie described cancers of the lung (“as large as an orange”), stomach (“a fungous appearance”), and the testicles (“a foul deep ulcer”) and provided vivid engravings of these tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Baillie described cancers of the lung (“as large as an orange”), stomach (“a fungous appearance”), and the testicles (“a foul deep ulcer”) and provided vivid engravings of these tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Baillie described cancers of the lung (“as large as an orange”), stomach (“a fungous appearance”), and the testicles (“a foul deep ulcer”) and provided vivid engravings of these tumors.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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If you have had the management of the case from the first, you must not at once saw the bone down to the meninx; for it is not proper that the membrane should be laid bare and exposed to injuries for a length of time, as in the end it may become it may become fungous.
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Watery ophthalmies of a chronic character, with pains; fungous excrescences of the eyelids, externally and internally, called fig, which destroyed the sight of many persons.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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There were fungous growths, in many other instances, on ulcers, especially on those seated on the genital organs.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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And there is another preparation of the same: - The strongest vinegar of a white color, honey, Egyptian alum, the finest natron; having toasted these things gently, pour in a little gall; this cleanses fungous ulcers, renders them hollow, and is not pungent.
On Ulcers 2007
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But when cleaned the wound must be dried, for thus the wound will most speedily become whole, when flesh devoid of humors grows up, and thus there will be no fungous flesh in the sore.
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