fungoid

adj

Etymology

From fungus + -oid.

  1. borrowed from fungus
  2. suffixed as fungoid — “fungus + oid

Definitions

  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.
  2. 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA