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fungi

  • noun
  • fun·gi
  • fŭnʹjī, fŭngʹgī

Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Other meanings

  1. A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.

Example sentences

  • “Fungi are closer to animals than to plants.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "fungī".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “fungi” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.