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fungoid

fungoid

1 9.9
Looking like a fungus such as mould or mushrooms
  • adjective
  • /ˈfʌŋɡɔɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fúngico
  • After the rain, we noticed several fungoid growths sprouting in the damp soil of the garden.

Examples

  • Melissa stared at the fungoid stalks, cold and colorless as dead flesh against the linoleum.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • With her knife, she began to scrape a white fungoid blob from a corner of the board, disconsolately at first, then with the resurgent conviction that it would all be made right one of these times.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The old tree was covered in a fungoid layer of mushrooms, indicating that it was decaying.

  • The laboratory examined samples of the fungoid material to identify the types of fungi present.

Synonyms

fungal
vsfungoid
  • Specialized
21 4.3

Related to living things like mould or mushrooms

is about looking or having traits like those organisms rather than cause or relation
funguslike
vsfungoid
7.0

Appearing like mold or a mushroom

is a general adjective for traits like those of such organisms not just appearance
fungous
vsfungoid
  • Specialized
8.8

Caused by or like mold that grows on plants

is used for likeness or characteristic traits rather than causal connection

Surface Forms

fungoid positive

Morphology

fungoid = fungus (semi-transparent) = fung + oid

The meaning 'resembling fungi' is predictable from 'fungus' + the suffix '-oid', but '-oid' is a less familiar combining suffix and the root appears as a clipped combining form rather than the full word.

Etymology

Fungoid comes from the word fungus, meaning mushrooms and similar growths, plus the ending -oid, which means 'like' or 'shape of' and appears in words like humanoid and asteroid. So fungoid means 'like a fungus', used for things that look or act like fungi.