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mycomorphic

mycomorphic adjective: having the form or perspective of a mushroom or fungus.

Adjective

mycomorphic (comparative more mycomorphic, superlative most mycomorphic)

  1. Having the form or perspective of a mushroom or fungus.
    • Near-synonyms: fungiform, mushroom-shaped
    • Why is Orchidaceae so large, its seeds so small , and its seedlings mycomorphic?2007, Lankesteriana, page 356

Examples of mycomorphic in a sentence

  • One cable railway station at Innsbruck is sleek and reptilean; a second is mycomorphic;2012, Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls:
  • Or is it mycomorphic to describe human male sexual arousal in the same language used to describe a mushroom's growth?2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 237:

Synonyms of mycomorphic

Forms of mycomorphic

comparativemore mycomorphic
superlativemost mycomorphic

Origin of mycomorphic

From myco- + -morphic.

Questions about mycomorphic

What does mycomorphic mean?
Mycomorphic means having the form or perspective of a mushroom or fungus.
How do you use mycomorphic in a sentence?
One cable railway station at Innsbruck is sleek and reptilean; a second is mycomorphic;
What part of speech is mycomorphic?
Mycomorphic is an adjective.

Words near mycomorphic in the dictionary

  1. mycolysis
  2. mycolytic
  3. mycomelic acid
  4. mycomembrane
  5. mycomembranes
  6. mycomorphic
  7. mycomyringitis
  8. myconanotechnology
  9. mycoparasite
  10. mycoparasites
  11. mycoparasitic

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