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fungi
1[ fuhn-jahy, fuhng-gahy ]
Fungi
2[ fuhn-jahy, fuhng-gahy ]
noun
- a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds.
fungi-
3- a combining form representing fungus in compound words:
fungicide.
fungi-
1combining_form
- fungus
fungicide
fungoid
fungi
2/ ˈfʌndʒaɪ; ˈfʌndʒɪ; ˈfʌŋɡaɪ /
noun
- a plural of fungus
fungi
- sing. fungus Plantlike organisms lacking chlorophyll , such as mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and mildews. Modern biologists tend to place fungi in their own kingdom , not in the plant kingdom , because they get their nutrients from other living things (or from the remains of living things that have died) rather than from photosynthesis . ( See under “Medicine and Health.” )
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Enter unassuming fungi: clean, plant-based solution that could possibly normalize blood sugar.
They have long since been touted as medicinal fungi, boasting the ability to strengthen the immune system and lower cholesterol.
All grains produce lectins, which selectively bind to unique proteins on the surfaces of bacteria, fungi, and insects.
Turns out the fungi in our inguinal crease are not the same ones on our heel pad or behind our ear.
After all, lots of infections course through the blood—viruses and bacteria and fungi.
The whitish patches of pharyngomycosis leptothrica are largely composed of these fungi.
Other fungi were of dazzling whiteness, which Lejoillie likened to a casket of pearls, supported by an azure stalk.
But the oddest thing to us are the bunches of fungi, tawny-coloured, piled up in heaps, and evidently very popular!
Spores of parasitic fungi enter the cracks, germinate and infect the heartwood.
Popular discrimination between "toadstool" and "mushroom," 16-22; popular distrust of fungi, 15.
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