A genus of fungi having conidia arranged in chains like beads on a string. As a count noun: any of various fungi now or formerly belonging to this…

literal. A small rounded swelling or bulge: (a) each of the minute rounded cells of various fungi or microbes, as the yeast-plant and certain…

A genus of schizomycetous fungi or bacteria, forming masses of cells united in fixed numbers, which are found in various animal fluids. Also attrib…

A genus of microscopic fungi resembling the holy-water sprinkler in appearance, growing on decayed organic matter.

Biology. = penicillus, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Any member of the class Chytridiomycetes or (more widely) the phylum Chytridiomycota, comprising microscopic aquatic fungi which reproduce by means…

A fungus; esp. a microscopic or pathogenic fungus.