| 释义 |
fungal, a. and n.|ˈfʌŋgəl|
[ad. mod.L. fungālis, f. L. fungus fungus.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a fungus; of the nature of a fungus. Fungal Alliance: Lindley's name for the group of fungi.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 119 The Fungal Alliance. 1874Cooke Fungi (1875) 16 Unnatural union between a captive algal damsel and a tyrant fungal master. 1882Quain's Med. Dict. 523 Assuming the filaments to be of undoubted fungal origin. 1887Pall Mall G. 16 June 5/2 The peculiar parasite or fungal formation, for the removal of which he has had to undergo an operation.
B. n. A fungus.
1845Lindley Sch. Bot. 156 Fungi—Fungals. 1849Sidney in Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc. X. ii. 382 Fungals most commonly grow upon animal or vegetable substances in a state of decomposition. 1874Cooke Fungi 36 Many of them are now proved to be imperfect in themselves, and only forms or conditions of other fungals. |