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A second, much more consequential disaster occurred two centuries later, when European ships accidentally imported the fungus-like organism, native to Peru, that causes the potato disease known as late blight.

The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

Anyway, if true, the fungus-like blossoming of the dark, damp impulses in American politics may be nearing its end, and I am happy, no, delighted to yield the hair shirt back to the lunatics.

Whacky Tom Toles 2010

Almost covering the world and threatening the survival of the human race is the Poison Jungle, a vast land of fungus-like plants and gigantic, semi-intelligent insects.

Movie Review: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 2007

The researchers found evidence for leech-borne transmission of a little-known fungus-like organism of the genus Ichthyophonus, which infects the muscles of red-spotted newts and other amphibians in North America.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

New York Giants executive vice president John Mara, on the $1.2 million artificial turf installed at Giants Stadium that disintegrated within months due to a mysterious fungus-like growth "" There's the feeling that if this were a man's disease it would have been licked already. ''

Perspectives 2008

The plant, as ripening nears, produces salvestrols to protect itself from fungus, and if we eat these plants intact, they get to work on fungus-like diseases in our own bodies, including cancer cells.

Archive 2006-06-01 GreenFertility 2006

For it was something to hush up and keep hidden away, to have qualms, even among themselves, about knowing; and, like all knowledge that fungus-like shrinks from the sun, it was stunted and unlovely.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

Seeds are removed from pods and fungus-like coating is scraped or flamed off (author recommends scaping as much as possible and flaming the rest, as the coating can be thick and it's easy to end up turning the whole seed into a chunk of carbon if you just flame it). 4-8 seeds are chewed on an empty stomach (to minimize nausea).

Natural Highs Frequently Asked Questions by Vince Cavasin 1992

The insidious, fungus-like blood-marks were spread all over their hands, arms and the body in general, providing nesting places for the plasma.

Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976

So far there was no medication capable of removing or even reducing the spread of the spongy, fungus-like swellings on their skin.

Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976