fungoid
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)
- 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
[edit]resembling a fungus
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Noun
[edit]fungoid (plural fungoids)
- 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.
- G. K. Chesterton
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fongoïde.
Adjective
[edit]fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)
Declension
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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 |