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Fungus
"Fungus" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Mushrooms are a kind of fungus.
That fungus is deadly, but many others are actually edible.
It's a fungus.
Ant colonies have underground fungus gardens.
A truffle is a fungus which lives in symbiosis with the roots of certain plants, such as oak, hazel, beech, poplar and willow trees.
When Meredith bought this northern Texas land several years ago, it was overgrazed and overrun with weeds. Now, she’s thrilled to find a dark green blob of fungus she rolls under her sparkly-nail-polished thumb.
My nail got attacked by a fungus and turned yellow.
This fungus can control its own growth.
This fungus died from a root disease.
This fungus infects trees.
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Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
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