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Any of numerous eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Fungi, which lack chlorophyll and vascular tissue and range in form from a single cell to a body mass of branched filamentous hyphae that often produce specialized fruiting bodies. The kingdom includes the yeasts, molds, smuts, and mushrooms.

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.

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.

1. A cellular vegetable organism feeding on organic matter; such are mushrooms, moulds, and bacteria. 2. A morbid excrescence on the surface of the body, soft and succulent, bearing a fancied resemblance to a mushroom; an exuberant overgrowth of granulation tissue, proud flesh.

Mushroom; morbid ulcerous growth.

A member of the order of acotyledonous plants called Fungi (which see): in med. (a) a spongy morbid excrescence, as proud flesh formed in wounds; (b) a minute incrustation and alteration of the skin dependent on the growth of vegetable parasites, as favus, ring-worm, etc.

Order of plants including mushrooms, mould, &c.

One of a group of plants, including mushrooms, toadstools, etc.; also, a soft, spongy growth on an animal body.

Fungous.

A plant belonging to the fungi; a spongy excrescence, as proud-flesh formed in wounds; an affection of the skin due to the growth of vegetable parasites.

The mushroom order of plants; class Cryptogamia, in the Linnaean system. In Pathology, the word is commonly used synonymously with fungosity, mycosis. M. Breschet has proposed to restrict the term fungosity to vegetations which arise on denuded surfaces, and to apply the term fungus to the tumours which form in the substance of the textures, without any external ulceration. Fici and warts, for example, would be fungi of the skin.

Any plant of the class to which mushrooms and moulds belong.

n. [Latin] A large natural order of cryptogamic plants, comprehending mushrooms, toadstools, the microscopic plants which form mould, mildew, smut, &c.;—a spongy morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies; proud-flesh.

Strictly a mushroom: a word used to express such excrescences of flesh as grow out upon the lips of wounds, or any other excrescence from trees or plants not naturally belonging to them.