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fungiphiles

fungiphiles is the plural of fungiphile.

Meaning of fungiphile

Noun

fungiphile (plural fungiphiles)

  1. A person who likes to collect, cook or eat wild mushrooms.
    • In addition to the enjoyment of hunting and the pleasure of new mushroom discoveries, the cryptic association of fungi with the decaying dead lends to the search a certain mystique that inspires the avid fungiphile.1999, Jack S. States, Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest, page 11
    Synonyms:
    mycophile
  2. Any organism (typically a bacterium) that selectively inhabits a fungus.

Questions about fungiphiles

What is fungiphiles the plural of?
Fungiphiles is the plural of fungiphile.

Words near fungiphiles in the dictionary

  1. fungine
  2. fungineer
  3. fungineers
  4. funging
  5. fungiphile
  6. fungiphiles
  7. fungiphilic
  8. fungipod
  9. fungipods
  10. fungiproof
  11. fungiproofed

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