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Oidium :: Oidium (n.) A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Mycose :: Mycose (n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose..

Agaric :: Agaric (n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood..

Phallus :: Phallus (n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.

Torula :: Torula (n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

Mycology :: Mycology (n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

Mildew :: Mildew (n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances..

Angiosporous :: Angiosporous (a.) Having spores contained in cells or thecae, as in the case of some fungi..

Fungibles :: Fungibles (n. pl.) Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things..

Fungal :: Fungal (a.) Of or pertaining to fungi.

Mycological :: Mycological (a.) Of or relating to mycology, or the fungi..

Fungiform :: Fungiform (a.) Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

Fungate :: Fungate (n.) A salt of fungic acid.

Fungus :: Fungus (n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each..

Endosporous :: Endosporous (a.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

Fungous :: Fungous (a.) Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

Ascospore :: Ascospore (n.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus..

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