Synonyms for fungus
ˈfʌŋ gəs; ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪfun·gus

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   mushroom, mold

2. fungusnoun

   Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.

   Synonyms:
   mushroom, mold

Princeton's WordNet

1. fungusnoun

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

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   spongy excrescence

2. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) flowerless plant (as the mushroom, toadstool, &c.), cryptogamous plant

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   thallogen, thallophyte, granulation, proud flesh

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1. List of paraphrases for "fungus":

   mushroom, fungal, fungi, mushrooms, mold, mould

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1. Matthew Nelsen:

   When you see a lichen, you're basically looking at all fungal tissue, with some algal cells hidden away and protected inside, loosely speaking, it's like a greenhouse -- the fungus creates a more hospitable environment for the algae.

2. Jessica Wu:

   Your cuticles help seal the nail and keep out bacteria and fungus.

3. Matthew Kasson.Read:

   When they fly around or walk on branches, they spread spores that way too, we call them flying saltshakers of death, because they basically spread the fungus the way salt would come out of a shaker that's tipped upside down.

4. Matt Barrett:

   If found, the fungus should not be touched, and definitely not eaten, of the hundred or so toxic mushrooms that are known to researchers, this is the only one in which the toxins can be absorbed through the skin.

5. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

   Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him