English > fungus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia. |
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| Category of | immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response | A bodily / bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen |
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| squamule | A minute scale |
| Member of | Fungi, kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdom | The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools |
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| Parts | cap, pileus | A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom / mushroom |
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| hymenium | Spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia |
| mycelium | The vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae |
| volva | cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi |
| Narrower | Aspergillus fumigatus | A mold causing aspergillosis / aspergillosis in birds and man |
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| Dutch elm fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi | fungus causing Dutch elm disease |
| Gastroboletus scabrosus | A dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete |
| Gastroboletus turbinatus | A fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown |
| Gastrocybe lateritia | A species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk |
| Macowanites americanus | A small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap |
| Phytophthora citrophthora | Causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits |
| Phytophthora infestans | fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes |
| Radiigera fuscogleba | A fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up |
| Volvaria bombycina | A parasite on various trees |
| Wynnea americana | A fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears |
| Wynnea sparassoides | A fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower |
| agaric, Fomes igniarius | fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses |
| ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus | Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus |
| basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi | Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota |
| bird's-nest fungus | Any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores |
| black root rot fungus, Xylaria mali | fungus causing black root rot in apples |
| blastomycete | Any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces |
| bolete | Any fungus of the family Boletaceae |
| bottom rot fungus, Corticium solani | fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce |
| brown root rot fungus, Thielavia basicola | fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families |
| candida | Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida |
| clubroot fungus, Plasmodiophora brassicae | A fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions / distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants |
| coffee fungus, Pellicularia koleroga | fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants |
| coral fungus | Any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral |
| dead-man's-fingers, dead-men's-fingers, Xylaria polymorpha | The fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria |
| dry rot | A fungus causing dry rot |
| earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball | Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles |
| earthstar | Any fungus of the family Geastraceae |
| earthtongue, earth-tongue | Any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
| ergot, Claviceps purpurea | A fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant |
| false morel | A fungus of the family Helvellaceae |
| false truffle | Any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle |
| felt fungus, Septobasidium pseudopedicellatum | fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States |
| gasteromycete, gastromycete | Any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes |
| green smut fungus, Ustilaginoidea virens | fungus causing green smut in rice |
| gyromitra | Any fungus of the genus Gyromitra |
| hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus, Grifola frondosa | large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees |
| jelly fungus | Any fungus of the order ... / order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh |
| lichen | Any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes |
| lorchel | A large fungus of the family Helvellaceae |
| mildew | A fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter |
| mold, mould | A fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter |
| monilia | Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia |
| pink disease fungus, Corticium salmonicolor | fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc |
| pond-scum parasite | An aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum |
| potato fungus, Pellicularia filamentosa, Rhizoctinia solani | fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers |
| potato wart fungus, Synchytrium endobioticum | fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers |
| puffball, true puffball | Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature |
| pythium | Any fungus of the genus Pythium |
| rhizoctinia | Any fungus now / now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia |
| rust, rust fungus | Any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants |
| sac fungus | Any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus |
| scaly lentinus, Lentinus lepideus | A fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring) |
| sclerotinia | Any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia |
| shiitake, shiitake mushroom, Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Oriental black mushroom, Lentinus edodes | edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe |
| slime mold, slime mould | A naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics / characteristics of both plants and animals |
| smut, smut fungus | Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales |
| stalked puffball | Mushroom of the genus Tulostoma that resembles a puffball |
| stinkhorn, carrion fungus | Any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales |
| tooth fungus | A fungus of the family Hydnaceae |
| true fungus | Any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota |
| truffle, earthnut, earth-ball | Any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber |
| verticillium | A fungus of the genus Verticillium |
| white fungus, Saprolegnia ferax | A fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease |
| white rust | fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia |
| yeast | Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division |
| yellow spot fungus, Cercospora kopkei | fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia) |
| Broader | organism, being | A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
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| Spanish | fungi, fungus, hongo, hongos |
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| Catalan | fong, fungi |
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| Adjectives | fungal, fungous | of or relating to fungi |
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| fungoid, funguslike | resembling fungi |
