Definition of "fungoid" [fun•goid]

• Of, relating to, resembling, or being a fungus. (adjective)
• A fungus. (noun)

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• "True, he had beheld shooting stars (this in reply to Bassett's contention); but likewise had he beheld the phosphorescence of fungoid growths and rotten meat and fireflies on dark nights, and the flames of wood - fires and of blazing candle-nuts; yet what were flame and blaze and glow when they had flamed and blazed and glowed?"
• "They have a parboiled appearance, are afflicted with hang-nails, while the nails are broken and discoloured, and the edges of the quick seem to be assuming a fungoid sort of growth."
• "Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms."