mycomorphic

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English

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Etymology

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From myco- +‎ -morphic.

Adjective

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mycomorphic (comparative more mycomorphic, superlative most mycomorphic)

  1. Having the form or perspective of a mushroom or fungus.
    Coordinate term: fungoid
    • 2007, Lankesteriana, page 356:
      Why is Orchidaceae so large, its seeds so small , and its seedlings mycomorphic?
    • 2012, Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls:
      One cable railway station at Innsbruck is sleek and reptilean; a second is mycomorphic;
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 237:
      Or is it mycomorphic to describe human male sexual arousal in the same language used to describe a mushroom's growth?