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fungous

[fuhng-guhs]

fun·gous

[fuhng-guhs]
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or caused by fungi; fungal.
2.
of the nature of or resembling a fungus.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fungōsus fungous, spongy. See fungus, -ous
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Fungous is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fungous (ˈfʌŋɡəs)
 
adj
1.  appearing suddenly and spreading quickly like a fungus, but not lasting
2.  a less common word for fungal

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fungous fun·gous (fŭng'gəs)
adj.
Variant of fungal.

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