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fungoid

American  
[fuhng-goid] / ˈfʌŋ gɔɪd /

adjective

  1. resembling a fungus; of the nature of a fungus.

  2. Pathology. characterized by funguslike growths.


noun

  1. Pathology. a growth having the characteristics of a fungus.

fungoid British  
/ ˈfʌŋɡɔɪd /

adjective

  1. resembling a fungus or fungi

    a fungoid growth

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fungoid

First recorded in 1830–40; fung(us) + -oid

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

This appeared to one of us so strange, that application was made for specimens, which were kindly forwarded, and a cursory glance was enough to convince us that they were not fungoid.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

I tell you, I saw that girl disintegrate, decay, turn fungoid under my eyes—ugh!

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

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