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Definition of Fungus
1. Noun. An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia.
Examples of category: Immune Reaction, Immune Response, Immunologic Response, Squamule
Terms within: Cap, Pileus, Volva, Hymenium, Mycelium
Specialized synonyms: Ceratostomella Ulmi, Dutch Elm Fungus, Claviceps Purpurea, Ergot, Black Root Rot Fungus, Xylaria Mali, Dead-man's-fingers, Dead-men's-fingers, Xylaria Polymorpha, Sclerotinia, Earthball, False Truffle, Hard-skinned Puffball, Puffball, Stalked Puffball, False Truffle, Slime Mold, Slime Mould, Pond-scum Parasite, Potato Wart Fungus, Synchytrium Endobioticum, Saprolegnia Ferax, White Fungus, White Rust, Pythium, Phytophthora Citrophthora, Phytophthora Infestans, Clubroot Fungus, Plasmodiophora Brassicae, Earth-ball, Earthnut, Truffle, Coral Fungus, Tooth Fungus, Lichen, True Fungus, Basidiomycete, Basidiomycetous Fungi, Chinese Black Mushroom, Golden Oak Mushroom, Lentinus Edodes, Oriental Black Mushroom, Shiitake, Shiitake Mushroom, Lentinus Lepideus, Scaly Lentinus, Corticium Salmonicolor, Pink Disease Fungus, Bottom Rot Fungus, Corticium Solani, Pellicularia Filamentosa, Potato Fungus, Rhizoctinia Solani, Coffee Fungus, Pellicularia Koleroga, Volvaria Bombycina, Sac Fungus, Ascomycete, Ascomycetous Fungus, Yeast, Aspergillus Fumigatus, Brown Root Rot Fungus, Thielavia Basicola, Wynnea Americana, Wynnea Sparassoides, False Morel, Lorchel, Gyromitra, Gasteromycete, Gastromycete, Carrion Fungus, Stinkhorn, Puffball, True Puffball, Earthstar, Radiigera Fuscogleba, Bird's-nest Fungus, Gastrocybe Lateritia, Macowanites Americanus, Gastroboletus Scabrosus, Gastroboletus Turbinatus, Grifola Frondosa, Hen Of The Woods, Hen-of-the-woods, Polyporus Frondosus, Agaric, Fomes Igniarius, Bolete, Jelly Fungus, Rust, Rust Fungus, Smut, Smut Fungus, Felt Fungus, Septobasidium Pseudopedicellatum, Mold, Mould, Mildew, Verticillium, Monilia, Candida, Blastomycete, Cercospora Kopkei, Yellow Spot Fungus, Green Smut Fungus, Ustilaginoidea Virens, Dry Rot, Rhizoctinia, Earth-tongue, Earthtongue
Group relationships: Fungi, Fungus Kingdom, Kingdom Fungi
Derivative terms: Fungal, Fungous
Definition of Fungus
1. n. Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
Definition of Fungus
1. Noun. Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fungus
1. any of a major group of lower plants [n -GI or -GUSES]
Medical Definition of Fungus
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Literary usage of Fungus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"However there was no fungus fruit in evidence, and as I waa unsuccessful in ...
On visiting the locality it was found that the fungus was evidently confined ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"Often several of these drops may be clearly seen scattered over the young fungus
garden [Fig. 6]. According to my observations this performance- is repeated ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Pure cultures were made of this form, and the complete development was followed
out by the hanging-drop method. The fungus proved to be a species of ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The fungus, which is chiefly within the leaves and stems, seldom emerges ...
As the patches extend in size by the growth of the fungus they at length become ..."
5. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"The spread of this disease is so sudden that unless some radical measures are
taken, or a natural enemy of this fungus develops, it is safe to predict that ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"Therefore, it results that there is a certain relation between the aspect of the
favus culture and the nutrient medium upon which the fungus was cultivated; ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Aa the patches extend in size by the growth of the fungus they at length ...
On the destruction of the leaves the fungus either descends the stem by the ..."
8. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(1) Ow the fungus causing the onion disease Peronospora ... By AE SHIPLEY, BA
The onion disease of the Bermudas is caused by a fungus Peronospora ..."
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