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  • noun Plural form of fungoid.

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Examples

  • They are known as shelving or bracket fungi, or popularly as "fungoids" or "fungos."

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • You never hear us talk, you think fungoids don't talk.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • You never hear us talk, you think fungoids don't talk.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • A few more Didonians came home from the woods, lighting their way with luminous fungoids.

    The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

  • Dr. Harvey's unfortunate position in the eye of constituted authority after he had discovered the circulation of the blood; as witness the lamentable consequences to whoever it was who, probably by the process of eating a mess of miscellaneous wild fungoids, disclosed to a bereaved family and a benefited world the important fact that certain mushrooms were nourishing and certain toadstools were fatal.

    Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926

  • This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds.

    The Innocence of Father Brown: The Hammer of God Gilbert Keith 1911

  • The forest, into which he sometimes ventured, was a place of dampness, deepness and smells; a place of great trees, fat fungoids, sprawling creepers, preposterous looking parasites, orchids, lianas; a place of things that crawled and climbed and twined and clung.

    From Place to Place 1910

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