Example Sentences

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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

He dragged an aluminum box out of its locker, opened it to disclose a gray funguslike mass.

From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan