funguslike
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a word derived from
fungus.
fungusnounany of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae.
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Now, researchers know why: A funguslike pathogen called Myrmecomorba nylanderiae can wipe out entire populations.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2022
He and his colleagues soon discovered the ants had been sick with a funguslike pathogen called a microsporidian.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2022
In the 1840s a funguslike organism, Phytophthora infestans, destroyed the Irish potato crop; more than one million people, one eighth of the population, starved to death.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2021
For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The walls were slippery with a thick, funguslike moss, from which cool water dripped.
From The Devil's Admiral by Moore, Frederick Ferdinand