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fungosity

noun

Etymology

From fungous + -osity; compare French fungosité, fongosité.

  1. borrowed from fungus
  2. formed as fungous — “fungus + -ous”
  3. suffixed as fungosity — “fungous + osity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being fungous or degree of being infused with fungus.

  2. A fungal growth.

    • The fungosities, which arise in wounds or ulcers, are easily repressed by gentle compression, dry lint, the sulphas cupri, or other gentle caustic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fungosity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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