fungoid

[ fuhng-goid ]

adjective

1. resembling a fungus; of the nature of a fungus.
2. Pathology. characterized by funguslike growths.

noun

1. Pathology. a growth having the characteristics of a fungus.

fungoid

/ ˈfʌŋɡɔɪd /

adjective

1. resembling a fungus or fungi

   a fungoid growth

Word History and Origins

Origin of fungoid¹

First recorded in 1830–40; fung(us) + -oid

Example Sentences

The virus has the world in what Samuel Beckett called, in “Echo’s Bones,” a “long fungoid squeeze.”

From New York Times

The details that define their characters, too, are precise and impeccably off-center, a perfect match for their stained, saggy corduroys and fungoid gray hair.

From New York Times

Food, when even exposed to vitiated air, becomes deteriorated in quality, just as good flour is rendered worthless by mixture with the damaged fungoid grain.

From Project Gutenberg

Or were they possibly of vegetable origin—something of a fungoid nature—or even on that strange borderland ’twixt animal and vegetable where roam the yeasty microbe and boisterous bacillus? 

From Project Gutenberg

The cut surfaces may be dipped in soot, not only to dry it more rapidly, but also to prevent any stray spores of fungoid diseases from germinating.

From Project Gutenberg