English edit

Etymology edit

From fungus +‎ -oid.

Adjective edit

fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
    • 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
      He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.

Translations edit

Noun edit

fungoid (plural fungoids)

  1. A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
    • G. K. Chesterton
      He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French fongoïde.

Adjective edit

fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)

  1. fungoid, fungiform

Declension edit