fungi

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie. ] (Zool.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n. One of the Fungidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. “A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste.” Bouvier. “Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur.” John Taylor (1755). Cf. Function. ] 1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fungique, fongique. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fungi + -cide, fr. L. caedere to kill. ] Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme. ] Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pl. [ L. imperfecti imperfect. ] (Bot.) A heterogenous phylum of fungi which lack a sexual phase, or of which the sexual phase is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. It is not considered a natural phylum, and is also called the Deuteromycota. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales. It includes the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, which reproduce asexually by means of conidia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Shaped like a small fungus. [ 1913 Webster ]