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fungous

/fuhng-guhs/US // ˈfʌŋ gəs //UK // (ˈfʌŋɡəs) //

真菌性的,真菌性,真菌,真菌的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or caused by fungi; fungal.
    • : of the nature of or resembling a fungus.

Examples

  • He taught him how to clean letterpress and engravings from ferruginous, fungous, and other kinds of spots.

  • The bottle was foul with slime and fungous growth, showing that it had been in the water for a long period.

  • Soon she dived from the turquoise pedestal, swam swiftly ashore and vanished in the vivid fungous jungle.

  • I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood."

  • Felled trunks occasionally lay across it, and alongside were the hollow and fungous boles of trees sawn down in long past years.