fungus — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

available, covered, deadly, humongous, important, kind, toxic, tropical

VERB + FUNGUS

attacked, harboring, nail, studied, tests

FUNGUS + NOUN

biomass, moss, trees

PREP.

from, in, in, off

Definitions

noun

1

Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.

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.

2

A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

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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 whi

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02

Mushrooms are a kind of fungus.

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That fungus is deadly, but many others are actually edible.

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04

It's a fungus.

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05

Ant colonies have underground fungus gardens.

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A truffle is a fungus which lives in symbiosis with the roots of certain plants, such as oak, hazel, beech, poplar and willow trees.

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