fungoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fungus +‎ -oid.

Adjective[edit]

fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
    • 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
      He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

fungoid (plural fungoids)

  1. A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
    • G. K. Chesterton
      He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fongoïde.

Adjective[edit]

fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)

  1. fungoid, fungiform

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