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
It was merely a 'grotesque, fungoid growth which clustered round the primeval thread of ancestor worship,' more or less a 'pathological phenomenon closely allied with neurosis and hysteria.'
From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean
The cut surfaces may be dipped in soot, not only to dry it more rapidly, but also to prevent any stray spores of fungoid diseases from germinating.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by John Weathers
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