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English
Etymology
From fungus + -oid.
Adjective
fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
- Coordinate terms: mycomorphic; fungal, fungous, mycotic; nonfungal, nonmycotic
- 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
- He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
Translations
Noun
fungoid (plural fungoids)
- A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
- G. K. Chesterton
- He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fongoïde.
Adjective
fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)
- fungoid, fungiform
Declension