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fun·gi

(fŭn′jī, fŭng′gī)

A plural of fungus.

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fun•gi

(ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪ)

n.

a pl. of fungus.

Fun•gi

(ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪ)

n. (used with a pl. v.)

a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds. Also called Mycota.

[< New Latin; see fungus]

fungi-

a combining form representing fungus: fungicide.

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Noun

Fungi - the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

fungus kingdom, kingdom Fungi

kingdom - the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia

fungus family - includes lichen families

fungus genus - includes lichen genera

fungus order - the order of fungi

division Gymnomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, Myxomycota - slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista

Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group - a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems

division Lichenes - comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi

fungus - an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia

division Eumycota, Eumycota - true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)

Tremella reticulata - a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi)

annulus, skirt - (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar

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Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom.

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Other things, too, there were, not less deadly though seemingly innocuous--dried fungi, traps intended for birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, and insects; machines which could produce pain of any kind and degree, and the only mercy of which was the power of producing speedy death.

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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.

The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled in the method of collocation of these stones--in the order of their arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread them, and of the decayed trees which stood around-- above all, in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its reduplication in the still waters of the tarn.

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The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither.

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Kala had moved slowly along an elephant track toward the east, and was busily engaged in turning over rotted limbs and logs in search of succulent bugs and fungi, when the faintest shadow of a strange noise brought her to startled attention.

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CLAIMS Fungi the dolphin has been replaced have been dismissed by the man who knows him best.

There is nothing fishy about our Fungi's age; Tour guide dismisses claims Dingle's famous dolphin is not original

"We demonstrated that the efficacy of the transgenic fungi is so much better than the wild type that it justifies continued development," said Raymond St.

Transgenic Fungus Kills Malaria Mosquitoes

Fungi play a crucial role in global ecosystems such as in the organic decomposition process.

Old mold: Fossil of world's earliest fungus unearthed in Canada

This study was designed to detect the intensity of the attraction and repulsion of nematodes to several fungi. Of the 14 fungi tested, 11 attracted root-knot nematodes, one repelled nematodes, and two were neutral.

Attraction of Root Knot Nematodes, Meloidogyne incognita, to Living Mycelium of Nematophagous Fungi

There are two types of fungus: Small fungi that cannot be seen through the naked eye and those which are large in size, including the mushroom which is called desert truffles or ordinary mushrooms.

FARMS ESTABLISHED TO PRESERVE MUSHROOMS

There are two types of fungus; small fungi that cannot be seen by the naked eye and fungi which are large in size, including the mushroom called desert truffles.