Synonyms for fungus
ˈfʌŋ gəs; ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪfun·gus

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   mushroom, mold

2. fungusnoun

   Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.

   Synonyms:
   mushroom, mold

Princeton's WordNet

1. fungusnoun

   an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   spongy excrescence

2. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Bot.) flowerless plant (as the mushroom, toadstool, &c.), cryptogamous plant

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1. fungusnoun

   Synonyms:
   thallogen, thallophyte, granulation, proud flesh

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1. List of paraphrases for "fungus":

   mushroom, fungal, fungi, mushrooms, mold, mould

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1. Matt Kasson:

   They are zombies in the sense that the fungus is in control of their bodies.

2. Jessica Wu:

   Your cuticles help seal the nail and keep out bacteria and fungus.

3. Youssef Sadaki:

   A terrorist militia now controls the capabilities of millions and threatens Kurdish areas as well. HTS controls every point, and the troops coming in from Arsal on the Lebanese border are only giving more power to HTS. That means no group on the ground has the strength to fight them, this is a real war and this will affect the U.S interests outside the Middle East. These non-state actors spread like fungus everywhere.

4. Rita Wilson:

   This leased house that we were living in -- there was an unfinished room downstairs where there was standing water and black mold. It was crawling up through the dry wall, like worms almost, into the air conditioning and heating ducts, and we were breathing it in for the four years. I got the fungus in my lung which can kill you.

5. Matt Barrett:

   If found, the fungus should not be touched, and definitely not eaten, of the hundred or so toxic mushrooms that are known to researchers, this is the only one in which the toxins can be absorbed through the skin.