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fungus is a type of:

• organism, being (noun) - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

types of fungus:

• Aspergillus fumigatus (noun) - a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man
• Dutch elm fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi (noun) - fungus causing Dutch elm disease
• Gastroboletus scabrosus (noun) - a dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete
• Gastroboletus turbinatus (noun) - a fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown
• Gastrocybe lateritia (noun) - a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk

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• Macowanites americanus (noun) - a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap
• Phytophthora citrophthora (noun) - causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits
• Phytophthora infestans (noun) - fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes
• Radiigera fuscogleba (noun) - a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up
• Volvaria bombycina (noun) - a parasite on various trees
• Wynnea americana (noun) - a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears
• Wynnea sparassoides (noun) - a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower
• agaric, Fomes igniarius (noun) - fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses
• ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus (noun) - any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus
• basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi (noun) - any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota
• bird's-nest fungus (noun) - any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores
• black root rot fungus, Xylaria mali (noun) - fungus causing black root rot in apples
• blastomycete (noun) - any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces
• bolete (noun) - any fungus of the family Boletaceae
• bottom rot fungus, Corticium solani (noun) - fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce
• brown root rot fungus, Thielavia basicola (noun) - fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
• candida (noun) - any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida
• clubroot fungus, Plasmodiophora brassicae (noun) - a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants
• coffee fungus, Pellicularia koleroga (noun) - fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants
• coral fungus (noun) - any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral
• dead-man's-fingers, dead-men's-fingers, Xylaria polymorpha (noun) - the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
• dry rot (noun) - a fungus causing dry rot
• earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball (noun) - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
• earthstar (noun) - any fungus of the family Geastraceae
• earthtongue, earth-tongue (noun) - any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum
• ergot, Claviceps purpurea (noun) - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant
• false morel (noun) - a fungus of the family Helvellaceae
• false truffle (noun) - any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle
• felt fungus, Septobasidium pseudopedicellatum (noun) - fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States
• gasteromycete, gastromycete (noun) - any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes
• green smut fungus, Ustilaginoidea virens (noun) - fungus causing green smut in rice
• gyromitra (noun) - any fungus of the genus Gyromitra
• hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus, Grifola frondosa (noun) - large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
• jelly fungus (noun) - any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh
• lichen (noun) - any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes
• lorchel (noun) - a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae
• mildew (noun) - a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter
• mold, mould (noun) - a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
• monilia (noun) - any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia
• pink disease fungus, Corticium salmonicolor (noun) - fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc
• pond-scum parasite (noun) - an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum
• potato fungus, Pellicularia filamentosa, Rhizoctinia solani (noun) - fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers
• potato wart fungus, Synchytrium endobioticum (noun) - fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers
• puffball, true puffball (noun) - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
• pythium (noun) - any fungus of the genus Pythium
• rhizoctinia (noun) - any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia
• rust, rust fungus (noun) - any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
• sac fungus (noun) - any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus
• scaly lentinus, Lentinus lepideus (noun) - a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring)
• sclerotinia (noun) - any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia
• shiitake, shiitake mushroom, Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Oriental black mushroom, Lentinus edodes (noun) - edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
• slime mold, slime mould (noun) - a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals
• smut, smut fungus (noun) - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
• stalked puffball (noun) - mushroom of the genus Tulostoma that resembles a puffball
• stinkhorn, carrion fungus (noun) - any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales
• tooth fungus (noun) - a fungus of the family Hydnaceae
• true fungus (noun) - any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota
• truffle, earthnut, earth-ball (noun) - any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber
• verticillium (noun) - a fungus of the genus Verticillium
• white fungus, Saprolegnia ferax (noun) - a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins)
• white rust (noun) - fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia
• yeast (noun) - any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
• yellow spot fungus, Cercospora kopkei (noun) - fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia)

fungus is a member of:

• Fungi, kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdom (noun) - the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools

parts of fungus:

• cap, pileus (noun) - a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
• hymenium (noun) - spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia
• mycelium (noun) - the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae
• volva (noun) - cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi

fungus is derivationally related to:

• fungal, fungous (adjective) - of or relating to fungi

Member of this domain - TOPIC:

• immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response (noun) - a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
• squamule (noun) - a minute scale