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Fungi

//ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  3. 3
    plural of fungus form-of, plural
  4. 4
    A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm. broadly, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).

Etymology 2

See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.

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