fonguenno

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From fongo (mushroom) +‎ -enno.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fonguenno (feminine singular fonguenna, masculine plural fonguennos, feminine plural fonguennas)

  1. mushroomlike, fungiform
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50v:
      DEl .vi. grado del ſigno de libra, es la piedra aque dizẽ fonguenna […] Et la ſu forma es atal como fongo, ⁊ dend a ella eſte nombre.
      Of the sixth degree of the sign of Libra is the stone they call mushroomlike And its shape is that of a mushroom, thus the name it has been given.