Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
kingdom within thedomain Eukaryota — themushrooms andfunguses - over 100,000species oforganisms that are similar toplants but do not containchlorophyll .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the cover design for Poisonous Fungi is in a class of its own.
King Poison Peter Ashley 2008
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The companion volume Edible Fungi is so mild by comparison, which is as it should be, a discreet repeat pattern of Boletus versipellis jumping up out of a frying pan.
King Poison Peter Ashley 2008
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Never take for granted the lowly little Mushroom, after all, he really is a "Fungi"!
Archive 2009-06-01 shipping troll 2009
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"Fungi" is a great idea for when I have a block of time.
PVS and HPL Pete Von Sholly 2009
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Never take for granted the lowly little Mushroom, after all, he really is a "Fungi"!
Warm blooms... shipping troll 2009
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The name "Fungi" has been given to a vast assemblage of plants, varying much among themselves, but on the whole of about the same structural rank as the algæ.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The school surgery was presided over in my day by a much-beloved old physician of the old school, named Fergus, which the boys had so long ago corrupted into "Fungi" that many a lad was caught mistakenly addressing the old gentleman as Dr. Fungi -- an error I always fancied to be rather appreciated.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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