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Definition of Fomes
1. Noun. Genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Polyporaceae, Polyporaceae
Member holonyms: Agaric, Fomes Igniarius
Definition of Fomes
1. n. Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
Definition of Fomes
1. a substance capable of carrying infection [n FOMITES]
Medical Definition of Fomes
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Origin: L. Fomes, -itis, touch-wood, tinder.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fomes
Literary usage of Fomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"fomes ATKINSON, GEO. F. Studies of Some Shade Tree and Timber Destroying Fungi.
... F. Atkinson) The genus fomes includes among its representatives the most ..."
2. Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lexemuel Ray Hesler, Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917)
"fomes ROOT-ROT Caused by Fames Ribis (Schum.) Fr. This is a root disease ...
The fungus fomes Ribis produces its fruiting bodies around the base of the bush ..."
3. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"... but often concentrically sulcate; perennial, forming successive strata, but
the latest formed stratum alone living. fomes, Fries, Nov. Symb., p. ..."
4. Report (1904)
"Named from a single specimen found on tamarack at Greenville. fomes ... fomes carneus
Nees. Decaying logs and trunks. Common. fomes ..."
5. First Letter to the Very Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D.: In Explanation, Chiefly in by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1869)
"... [fomes peccati, " concupiscence"] was "bound" in the BV when she was sanctified
in her mother's womb, so that it should not burst forth into actual sin, ..."
6. A Manual of the History of Dogmas by Bernard John Otten (1918)
"In accordance with this distinction, the following three views were formed in
regard to the extinction of the fomes peccati. ..."
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