fungous (fung gus)

[ And chaf is better for hem [radishes) thenne is donnge, For thai therof wol be right fungous stronge. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 172. We may be sure of raine, in case we see a fungous substance or soot gathered about lamps and candle snuffs. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xviii. 35. The saple wood, divested of the bark, Grows fungous , and takes fire at ev'ry spark. Cowper , Conversation, 1. 54. Another form of fungous vegetation that develops itself within the living body is the Botrytis ba i an a. W. B. Carpenter , Micros., § 313. 2. Characterized by the appearance of fungoid growths: as, a fungous disease.-3. Growing * sfungus, Each with some wondrous gift approach'd the Power, A nest, a toad, a fungus , or a flower. Pope , Dunciad, iv. 400. In wine-making, the fermentation of the juices of the grapes or other fruit employed is set going by the devel opment of minute fungi whose germs have settled on their W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 311. The healthy animal organism po e es the power of destroying and eliminating certain kinds of living microscopic spores and filaments of fungi from the circulation. The Lancet, June 4, 1881. 2. In pathol., a spongy morbid excrescence, as proud flesh formed in wounds. - Bird's-nest fungus. See bird's -nest. - Budding fungi. See bud1.-Chignon-fungus. See chignon. - Filamentous fungus, one composed of separate or but little interwoven hyphæ, as common molds.-Fungus disease, mycetoma. Fungus hematodes, in pathol., a name applied to a soft and vascular carcinoma when, after ulceration of the integuments, it grows up rapidly in a dark-colored, rugose, easily bleeding ma . - Fungus Mel i tens is, the Cynoто rium coccineum, a fungus-like plant of southern Europe, of the apetalous order Bal a no pho raceæ. See cut under Cynomorium. - House-fungus, a fungus destructive to the timbers of houses and other buildings; dry-rot.- Smut fungus, one of the Ustilagineæ which produces a smut like ma of spores. See smut. - Spawn-fungi, Basidio mycetes (mushrooms, puffballs, etc.) which may be propagated by means of ma es of mycelium called spawn.Sprouting fungi, those fungi propagated by sprouting or budding, as the species of Saccharomyces and growth forms of certain higher fungi. - Yeast-fungus, the fungus which is the active principle in yeast; Saccharomyces. See yeast and fermentation. (See also beefsteak - fungus, fish fungus.)