Noun: fungus
| Singular | fungus |
| Plural | fungi; fungus |
Sample Sentences
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Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. [2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:]
Nouns inflected like fungus
fungus,
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”). Displaced native Old English swamm. See: Latin Nouns '
fungus'.
Verbs referencing "fungus"
Irish Nouns
fungas.