fungoid

English

Etymology

From fungus +‎ -oid.

Adjective

fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.

   Coordinate terms: mycomorphic; fungal, fungous, mycotic; nonfungal, nonmycotic

   • 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:

     He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.

Translations

resembling a fungus

• French: fongoïde (fr), fongiforme (fr)
• Maori: whakaharore
• Occitan: fongoïd
• Turkish: mantarsı (tr), mantarımsı

Noun

fungoid (plural fungoids)

1. A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
   • G. K. Chesterton

     He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fongoïde.

Adjective

fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)

1. fungoid, fungiform

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	fungoid		fungoidă		fungoizi	fungoide
	definite	fungoidul		fungoida		fungoizii	fungoidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	fungoid		fungoide		fungoizi	fungoide
	definite	fungoidului		fungoidei		fungoizilor	fungoidelor