Fungiphile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who likes to collect, cook or eat wild mushrooms.

    "In addition to the enjoyment of hunting and the pleasure of new mushroom discoveries, the cryptic association of fungi with the decaying dead lends to the search a certain mystique that inspires the avid fungiphile."

  2. 2
    Any organism (typically a bacterium) that selectively inhabits a fungus.

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mycophile

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"In addition to the enjoyment of hunting and the pleasure of new mushroom discoveries, the cryptic association of fungi with the decaying dead lends to the search a certain mystique that inspires the avid fungiphile."

Etymology

From fungi- + -phile.

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