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- noun nonstandard, rare Plural form of
fungus .
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Examples
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"Our old nurse used to call funguses pixie stools," said Edith Carey,
Monitress Merle Angela Brazil 1907
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All these kids have a bucket of toxins, infections, funguses, she said.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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All these kids have a bucket of toxins, infections, funguses, she said.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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There are bandages with herbal medications and soaks for foot funguses.
Seeking Alternatives Sumathi Reddy 2012
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All these kids have a bucket of toxins, infections, funguses, she said.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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The store is a hodgepodge of barrels and jars filled with dried herbs, funguses, roots and sea creatures.
Seeking Alternatives Sumathi Reddy 2012
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The fact is Morels are funguses that produce fruiting bodies (mushrooms) under certain favorable conditions.
Morels 2009
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Once they break the skin of the fruit, then funguses and other diseases can invade and kill the plant.
For gardeners, stink bugs are not a problem to sniff at 2011
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The fact is Morels are funguses that produce fruiting bodies (mushrooms) under certain favorable conditions.
Morels 2009
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These eagle-eyed guardians of freedom are so obsessed with making sure that we're all sharing our foot-funguses with each other on while our shoes go through the X-ray machine that they can't actually find actual bombs.
Boing Boing 2007
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