fungal
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfʌŋɡəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]fungal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.
- Synonyms: fungous, mycotic
- Antonyms: nonfungal, nonmycotic
- Coordinate terms: fungoid; fungusy, mushroomy, mushroomoid, mushroomlike, fungiform; antifungal, antimycotic
- Doctors determined that the cause of the itchy rash was fungal rather than bacterial.
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[edit]of or pertaining to a fungus
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Noun
[edit]fungal (plural fungals)
- (archaic) A fungus.
- 1847, John Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom: Second Edition, with Corrections, page 30:
- Fungals are distinguished from Lichens by their more fugitive nature, their more succulent texture, their want of a thallus or expansion independent of the part that bears the reproductive matter, […]
- 1856, John Lindley, Medical and Oeconomical Botany: With Numerous Illustrations, page 9:
- Fungals are, however, among the more useful friends of man as food, and among his most dangerous enemies as parasites, destroying the sources of his food.
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