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
He lay flat on the floating fungoid, and strove to reach out and grasp the end of the spear.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
Party formulae, international rivalries, social customs, and very much of the ordinary law of our state impressed him as a kind of fungoid growth out of a fundamental intellectual muddle.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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