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• This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.From the entry ability
• The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.From the entry description
• A lichen is a fungus with symbiotic algae among its cells.From the entry symbiotic
• The fungus was first described by a botanist.From the entry describe
• The fungus Paecilomyces can be used as a bionematicide.From the entry bionematicide
• Mycetoma is caused by bacteria or fungus and usually enters the body through cuts.2025 April 26, Agence France-Presse, “Only global research unit on tropical skin disease becomes casualty of war”, in South China Morning…. From the entry mycetoma
• Peter's doubt in his own leadership grew like fungus on his thoughts.2020 August 1, Zoë Routh, People Stuff - Beyond Personality Problems: An Advanced Handbook for Leadership, Inner Compass Australia, →ISBN. From the entry broody
• The death grip, summit disease, these are extended characteristics of the fungus, part of its extended phenotype.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, “Mycelial Minds”, in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, London…. From the entry summit disease
• This colorful fungus has also been known by the common name “dead man’s fingers,” among other labels.2019 April 19, “Colorful ‘dead man’s fingers’ emits foul odor”, in Tallahassee Democrat, page C3. From the entry column stinkhorn
• Fungus comb also serves as food source, especially in adverse climatic conditions or when food is scarce.2018, Omkar, Pests and Their Management, page 928. From the entry fungus comb
• Looks like there's blood in the slime." Sue peered at the fungus.2013 September 10, Elva Thompson, Heartstar: Book One: the Key Made of Air, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry witch's egg
• Tremella fuciformis is a tropical and subtropical jelly fungus found on hardwood logs after heavy rains.2010, Michael Kuo, Andy Methven, 100 Cool Mushrooms, page 185. From the entry jelly fungus
• The egg dispersal mechanics of the bird's nest fungus are as amazing as its appearance.2010, Bill Russell, Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic, page 107. From the entry bird's nest fungus
• This enzyme might be responsible for the degradation of phenolics in the fungus comb.2006, Helmut König, Ajit Varma, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 346. From the entry fungus comb
• Eventually the fungus produces a structure called an infection peg or hostorium.1993, Turf Management Digest, page 97. From the entry hostorium
• I inhaled deeply the dank, boletic smell around the woody fungus.1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, page 164. From the entry boletic
• The fungus is edible but not as delicious as its name might imply.1976, The Gardener's Diary, Macmillan, →OCLC, page 271. From the entry saffron milk cap
• This yellow jelly fungus, commonly known as Witch's Butter, is seen only during the rainy season.1968, Robert Thomas Orr, Dorothy B. Orr, Mushrooms and Other Common Fungi of Southern California, page 18. From the entry jelly fungus
• Blue mold and the black rot fungus are most Commonly found associated with blotch in this way.1951, Dean Humboldt Rose, Lacy Porter McColloch, D. F. Fisher, Market Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables: Apples, Pears, Quinces. From the entry blotch
• Generations of closely related beetles farm generations of cloned ambrosia fungus.1942, Gina Hamilton, Kingdoms of Life - Fungi (eBook), Lorenz Educational Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungus
• Common jelly fungus sometimes looks like a clump of ribbons but mostly it looks like glossy, golden-yellow or orange-yellow blobs .2024 March 8, Sandra Kynes, The Witches' Encyclopedia of Magical Plants: History, Folklore, Correspondences, and Spells, Llewellyn…. From the entry witch's butter
• As this fungus is naturally occurring in contaminated sites, it automatically helps in minimizing toxic substances of its habitat.2016, “Chapter 15: Role of Aspergillus in bioremediation process”, in Vijai Kumar Gupta, editor, New and Future Developments in Microbial…. From the entry bioremediation
• A native fungus, the Octopus Stinkhorn, or Devil's Fingers, still smells of rotting meat regardless of what it's called.2016 March 22, “Devil of a fungus in Bush Capital”, in The Canberra Times, page 8. From the entry octopus stinkhorn
• I have also seen fallen birch logs hosting toothed jelly fungus and witch's butter, both of which are useful edible fungi.2015, Cliff Seruntine, The Wildwood Way: Spiritual Growth in the Heart of Nature, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry toothed jelly fungus
• This Scottish bacteriologist accidentally discovered the antibiotic penicillin after bacteria-killing fungus formed on staphylococci cultures he had left unattended.2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 127. From the entry staphylococcus
• Ambrosia beetles which are the first colonists of a dead tree must carry their ambrosia fungus with them to survive.2012, Gerard Meurant, Insect-Fungus Interactions, Academic Press, →ISBN. From the entry ambrosia fungi
• From that fungus and everwhat else is in there.2009, Cheryl Mullenax, Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror (Fiction), Comet Press, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry everwhat
• With the stakes so high, fungus collection frequently turns to a rush that pits nomads against their neighbors.[2008 July 9, Mara Hvistendahl, “Future of Popular Chinese Herbal Medicine Up in the Air”, in Scientific American. From the entry Dabpa
• Later the pods become covered completely with white powdery mass composed of mycelium, oidiophores and oidia of the fungus.2006, A. V. S. S. Sambamurty, A Textbook of Plant Pathology, page 239. From the entry oidium
• NATURE'S most green-fingered creatures, ants have been cultivating gardens of tasty fungus for 50 million years, according to scientists.2006, Augustus Brown, Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals, page 200. From the entry green-fingered
• The branching progression of the fungus into the host cell provokes de novo synthesis of the periarbuscular membrane.2005, Gopi K. Podila, Ajit Varma, editors, Basic Research and Applications of Mycorrhizae, New Delhi: I. K. International Pvt. Ltd.…. From the entry arbuscle
• And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry infection
• These two cases of witkop had a close resemblance to favus, but no evidence of fungus infection was found.1970, British Journal of Venereal Diseases - Volumes 46-47, page 217. From the entry witkop
• Microscopic and sometimes macroscopic examination of the apparently healthy intervening tissue may reveal the fungus connecting the blotches of diseased tissue.1938, Henry Bake Steer, Stumpage Prices of Privately Owned Timber in the United States. From the entry blotch
• One class, bracket fungus, may be used for decorative purposes.1921 February, Anthony E. Zipprich, “Drawing on Fungus-a Novel and Pleasing Art”, in Popular Science, volume 98, number 2, Modern…. From the entry bracket fungus
• Long, thin cupedid beetles clamber over the rotting humus – they are specialists at consuming soft, decaying wood and the fungus that causes that decay.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 158. From the entry cupedid
• Candy canes only associate with matsutake, and their presence is as sure an indicator of a thriving matsutake fungus as a matsutake mushroom itself.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 174. From the entry candy cane
• Schwendener proposed that the lichen fungus (known today as the micobiont) offered physical protection and acquired nutrients for itself and for the algal cells.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 81. From the entry micobiont
• This can be beneficial to the fungus as from this elevated position they can spread their spores far and wide on the breeze.2017, Jack Ashby, “Caterpillar with Parasitoid Fungus: Dried Specimen”, in Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects, Stroud…. From the entry summit disease

Meaning of fungus

1. noun A eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Fungi typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
2. noun The flesh of such an organism.
3. noun A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

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Questions about fungus in a sentence

How do you use fungus in a sentence?

Fungus is used as a noun. For example: “This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.”

What is a short sentence with fungus?

“The fungus was first described by a botanist.”

What does fungus mean?

Fungus means a eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Fungi typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.