adjective
Etymology
Origin of fungoid
Example Sentences
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The virus has the world in what Samuel Beckett called, in “Echo’s Bones,” a “long fungoid squeeze.”
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2020
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 • Oct. 10, 2016
The outlook is determinedly fungoid, yet the tone is perversely gleeful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walking was still exquisitely painful to me as we slipped out through the arched door and into the fungoid forest beyond the three blue cylinders.
From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various
It is a fungoid and quite alien growth, which has fastened upon that genius, taking advantage of its frailties.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
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