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fungoid

fungoid adjective: of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.

Adjective

fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)

  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.1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142

Noun

fungoid (plural fungoids)

  1. 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.1922, G. K. Chesterton, Trees of Pride

Forms of fungoid

Adjective
comparativemore fungoid
superlativemost fungoid
Noun
pluralfungoids

Origin of fungoid

From fungus + -oid.

Questions about fungoid

What does fungoid mean?
Fungoid means of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
What part of speech is fungoid?
Fungoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near fungoid in the dictionary

  1. fungo
  2. fungo bat
  3. fungo bats
  4. fungoed
  5. fungoes
  6. fungoid
  7. fungoidal
  8. fungoids
  9. fungoing
  10. fungological
  11. fungologist

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