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Webster 1913 Edition
Fungoid
Fun′goid
,Adj.
[
Fungus
+ -oil
: cf. F. fongoïde
.] Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
Syn. – funguslike.
Definition 2024
fungoid
fungoid
English
Adjective
fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)
- 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.
- 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
Translations
resembling a fungus
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Noun
fungoid (plural fungoids)
- 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.
- G. K. Chesterton