Fungoid

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling fungi wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
funguslikefungusy

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From fungus + -oid.

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