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Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each. Note: The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll,

Additional info about word: FUNGUS

Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each. Note: The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites. They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head. The vegetative system consists of septate or rarely unseptate filaments called hyphæ; the aggregation of hyphæ into structures of more or less definite form is known as the mycelium. See Fungi, in the Supplement.

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• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• COMPLEXEDNESS
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• COMPLEXNESS
  The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• FUNGIA
  A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• RALLIES
  A French political group, also known as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• SHERRYVALLIES
  Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. Bartlett.
• DISCOMPLEXION
  To change the complexion or hue of. Beau. & Fl.