Definition of Funguslike

1. Adjective. Resembling fungi.

Exact synonyms: Fungoid
Partainyms: Fungus, Fungus

Definition of Funguslike

1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of fungus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Funguslike

fungologists
fungology
fungosities
fungosity
fungous
fungous foot
fungs
fungus
fungus ball
fungus family
fungus genus
fungus gnat
fungus kingdom
fungus order
funguses
funguslike (current term)
fungusproof
fungusproofed
fungusproofing
funhouses
funic
funicle
funicles
funicular
funicular graft
funicular myelitis
funicular myelosis

Literary usage of Funguslike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene for Higher Grammar Grades by Winfield Scott Hall (1900)
"These dots are little funguslike papillae. If you can see the tongue very far back, you may see several very much larger papillae. ..."

2. Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene: For Higher Grammar Grades by Winfield Scott Hall (1911)
"These dots are little funguslike ... All around the sides of the large papillae at the base of the tongue and the small funguslike ..."

3. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"... other cases a thin, offensive discharge issues from the crack and the ulcerated soft tissues, or a funguslike growth protrudes from the narrow opening. ..."

4. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Vickers T. Atkinson, William Dickson, William Heyser Harbaugh, James Law, John Robbins Mohler, A. J. Murray, William Herbert Lowe, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, Milton R. Trumbower, Richard West Hickma (1916)
"These push their way outward and finally break through the skin as small, reddish, funguslike bodies covered with thin sloughs. Or the original swelling, ..."

5. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... of the database files, spreading funguslike across the surface of the hard drive as the number of inhabitants grew and their creations proliferated. ..."

6. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch (1889)
"When fresh the interior is of the consistency of cheese, white, scentless, and with a faint funguslike taste. When dryer, and in old specimens it becames ..."

7. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"The internal surface was covered with, a thick papillary growth, consisting of multiple funguslike excrescences which, in some areas, were massed together ..."

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