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Synonyms for FUNGI
ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪfun·gi
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Princeton's WordNet
Fungi, kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdomnoun
the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
Synonyms:
fungus kingdom, kingdom Fungi
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
funginoun
Synonyms:
Thallophytes (toadstools, mushrooms, etc.)Associated words:
spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fungi":
mushrooms, fungal, mushroom, fungus, shrooms, microfungi, moulds, arbuscules, molds
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#13119 | mushroom | |
#13486 | mushrooms | |
#17519 | fungi | |
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#20373 | molds | |
#34477 | moulds | |
#99563 | shrooms |
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If one of our limbs were taken out or if our stomach was slashed open, we would probably be incapacitated, but infected cicadas, despite the fact that a third of their body has fallen off, continue to go about their activities like mating and flying as if nothing happened. This is really, really unique for insect killing fungi.
I love the work and it’s given me an opportunity to learn more about fungi.
There’s one hypothesis from a prominent mycologist who suggests that the reason the body’s temperature is 98.6 is because that is the temperature where fungi can’t grow that well. And so, now we’re seeing Candida auris and some of the other new microbes that have come up that really grow quite well – even at temperatures of 98.6 in the human body. And so I think climate change, really selecting for these organisms to adapt to a warmer climate, is going to increase the odds that there’s infection in humans.
I think we're going to see the ranges of these things shift, and that could lead to some shuffling of the relationships with fungi -- we might get partnerships that weren't there previously.
Our current list of lost species is over 2,000 and they cover the whole breadth of flora, fauna and fungi across the world.
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