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fungous, a.|ˈfʌŋgəs|
[ad. L. fungōsus, f. fungus: see fungus and -ous. Cf. F. fongueux.]
1. Of or pertaining to fungi; having the nature of a fungus. † Also, formerly, Resembling a fungus in texture; spongy.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ix. 42 And chaf is bettir for hem than is donge, For they therof wol be right fungous stronge. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 8 The tables of the bones of y⊇ head whiche shut betwene them the Fungous substaunce. 1601Holland Pliny xviii. xxxv. I. 613 We may be sure of raine, in case wee see a fungous substance or soot gathered about lamps and candle snuffs. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Their lungs are single, fibrous, divided by pipes, very long and fungous. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 27 Rhubarb is a thick fungous Root. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 397 Twenty-five acres of spungy fungous bog. 1781Cowper Conversat. 54 The sapless wood, divested of the bark, Grows fungous. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 274 There is a deep soil, with a crust of fungous moss. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 221 Placentæ either single and fungous, or double and thin. 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 237 No fungous weeds invade thy scanty soil. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 84 An afternoon which had a fungous smell out of doors.
transf. and fig.1652J. Hall Height Eloq. p. vi, Fungous and empty inflations are evill in an Oration, as well as in a naturall body. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vii. §47. 269 The base principles of modern building..some fungous wall of nascent rottenness that a thunder-shower soaks down. 1859Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 267 Antiquity, with merely the natural growth of fungous human life upon it.
b. Path. (Cf. fungus 2.)
1667R. Lower in Phil. Trans. II. 614 What the cause may be of that fungous Excressence, or why Horses are peculiarly obnoxious to it. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. White honey Charge, Verdigrease or Vitriols keep down the growth of proud fungous Flesh. 1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 207 The following case of fungous excrescence from the tongue. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 669 Desault mistook a fungous tumour of the bladder for a calculus. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 275 This form of cancer may produce very vascular fungous growths.
2. Growing or springing up suddenly like a mushroom, not durable or substantial.
1751Harris Hermes iii. v. (1765) 424 That fungous growth of Novels and of Pamphlets. 1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. xiv. 86 The fungous production of the common novel-wright will be too insignificant to attract his notice. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii, Those manufactories, which have suddenly sprung up, like fungous excrescences. 1829W. G. Meredith Mem. Chas. K. of Sweden Introd. §33. 89 One of the mushroom monarchs of Napoleon, fortunate in not being as evanescent as his fungous brethren. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. i. §6. 59 These temporary elements have been fungous in their growth.
Hence ˈfungousness, fungous quality.
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