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fungosities

fungosities is the plural of fungosity.

Meaning of fungosity

Noun

fungosity (countable and uncountable, plural fungosities)

  1. The quality of being fungous or degree of being infused with fungus.
  2. (archaic) 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.1833, Robley Dunglison, “Fungos′ity”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, […], volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: […] [E. W. Metcalf and Company] for Charles Bowen, →OCLC, page 421...

Questions about fungosities

What is fungosities the plural of?
Fungosities is the plural of fungosity.

Words near fungosities in the dictionary

  1. fungophiles
  2. fungophobia
  3. Fungor
  4. fungos
  5. fungose
  6. fungosities
  7. fungosity
  8. fungous
  9. fungs
  10. funguria
  11. fungus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fungosities (page history and authors); fungosity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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