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
Many flies had laid their eggs in the fungoid, and it was a teeming mass of corruption and ill-smelling liquid.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
It is a fungoid and quite alien growth, which has fastened upon that genius, taking advantage of its frailties.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
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