fun'go us. exuberant

Like a fungus; soft, spongy, fun'gus. PI. fungi, i. A member of the subkingdom of the vegetable kingdom without stems, leaves, or roots, including some forty you sand species. They are without chlorophyll, do not a imilate CO2, are usually parasitic, and are composed either of single cells, or filaments, called hyphae. 2. A mushroom or a plant of similar nature. 3. An exuberant, soft, spongy outgrowth. cleft fungi. The Schizomycetes or fi ion fungi; so _ called because they increase by fi ion. The term is also applicable to the earth stars {G easier), the peridium of which splits ultimately into several divisions, filamentous fungi. A term reserved by some for the Hyp homy cetes, but in the sense of fungi in which the vegetative body or thallus consists of filiform elements {hyphae) it includes all the larger groups of fungi except the Myxomycetes (placed by De Bary among ameboid animal organisms) and certain degenerate higher forms, such as the yeast plant, fi ion fungi. The Schizomycetes. f. articuli. See fungous arthritis, under arthritis. F. bovista. See Lycoperdon. f. cancrosus nematodes. See /. hematodes. f. cancrosus medullar is. See medullary sarcoma, f. cerebral is. See medullary sarcoma. f. cerebri. A fungous outgrowth from the brain through an opening in the skull. f. chirurgorum. 1. See amadou. 2. Lycoperdon bovista. I. cranii. A fungous growth of the cranial bones, f. hematodes. Syn.: carcinoma hem a to ides, telangiectatic carcinoma. See medullary sarcoma, under sarcoma, f. mammae. Cancer of the breast, f. medullar is. See medidlary sarcoma, under sarcoma, f. meCullaris oculi. See glioma retinae. f. melano des. See melanotic cancer, under cancer, f. of the dura mater. A tumor, especially medullary sarcoma, springing from the dura mater. F. typhoides. See Cynomorium coccineun., under Cynomorium. f. umbilical is. A fungous state of the stump of the umbilical cord in newborn infants, f. vasculorum. See nevus vascular is, germ fungi. See Blastomycetes. split fungi. The Schizomycetes. yeast fungi, yeast plant fungi. The Saccharomycetes. [Lat., fungus, mushroom.]