fungi
Meaning
- Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
- (form-of, plural) plural of fungus
fungus
- (countable, uncountable) Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
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