adjective
Etymology
Origin of fungoid
Example Sentences
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The virus has the world in what Samuel Beckett called, in “Echo’s Bones,” a “long fungoid squeeze.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
The details that define their characters, too, are precise and impeccably off-center, a perfect match for their stained, saggy corduroys and fungoid gray hair.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2016
The outlook is determinedly fungoid, yet the tone is perversely gleeful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fungoid Diseases.—Of the fungoid diseases affecting bulbous plants happily there are few; and even these are not troublesome to any alarming extent in the open air.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers
This should be applied with a fine-sprayed syringe, and is a good preventive against many kinds of fungoid attacks.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers
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