fungoidn.adj.

1734 G. Thomson Anat. Human Bones 273 All fungi, as agaric, boleti, lycoperda and fungoides, are known by the same characteristics.

1754 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 550/1 But seems to be an excrementitious fungoid, oozing from the heads of full grown pollards, oak, ash, elm, &c.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature III. 240 Sebastian le Vaillant enumerates one hundred and four species of them [sc. mushrooms] in the vicinity of Paris, without taking into the account the fungoïds, which furnish, at least, a dozen more.

1827 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 2 397 To dry, in the usual manner, by a moderate degree of pressure, in grey paper, the Fungoids of a thin and papyraceous consistence, as well as the epiphyllous fungosities.

1850 G. Moore Health, Dis. & Remedy viii. 130 Water exposed to the air especially in summer, gets loaded with microscopic fungoids and animalcules.

1866 ‘J. Senilis’ Pinaceæ 150 Useless for any purpose, unless, indeed, for supplying food for parasitical insects or rusty fungoids.

1966 Med. Hist. 10 26 They were reduced to living on forest fungoids and on Mbuga, a cooked spinach made of the leaves of certain shrubs.

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. iii. 145 The fungoids include the true Fungi plus various groups of other organisms that have fungus-like characteristics but are not true Fungi.

2015 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 18 June I'd rather leave the way I'm going to age in the hands of God rather than have someone inject me with some kind of strange fungoid or bacterium.

1873 J. G. Gilchrist Homœopathic Treatm. Surg. Dis. 52 Wounds of the conjunctiva must be closed with fine wire, or the denuded sclerotic coat may suffer. If not closed, small tumor-like fungoids may spring up.

1924 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 602/2 Mr. Bussey added that his remedies were only injurious to fungoids and would harm no constitution.

2016 H. Valier Hist. Prostate Cancer ii. 34 In this view, the differing nature of the tumours—cancers, polyps, fungoids, and so on—depended on the nature of the particular cellular base and the nature of morbid cause stimulating excess growth.

1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 239 The short sprigs which coat the outside diverging from the centre, and ending at the circumference in solid, fungoid, protuberances.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlv. 411 The berg will now rise slowly, presenting a succession of new surfaces to the abrasion of the waves; and thus we shall have the familiar mushroom or fungoid appearance which is shown in many of the plates.

1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) ii. 133 Minute fungoid moulds.

1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xi. 272 Yeast and other low fungoid forms flourish in solutions of ammonia.

1932 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Fund. Insect Life xi. 463 Certain bacteroid or fungoid plants live in alimentary canals or fat-bodies of insects.

1988 R. Angell Season Ticket (1989) xi. 272 The same malaise had also afflicted me, in a creeping, fungoid fashion, during the gross inflation of salaries that followed the arrival of free agency.

2014 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 14 June 46 A few continuous days of summer rain..will wake up its [sc. blight] evil fungoid spores.

1820 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 384 Numerous small fungoid excrescences were seen here and there scattered upon its surface.

1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 100 Cancer, or fungoid disease.

1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 30 The malignant growths include fungoid tumour.

1920 J. M. H. MacLeod Dis. Skin xxx. 926 The development of tumours which become ulcerated or form fungoid growths.

1966 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Mar. 736/3 Various ulcerated and fungoid tumours of the surface may be diagnosed with certainty, from an examination of the cells alone.

2012 European Jrnl. Radiol. 81 1982/1 Gross pathologic types [of esophageal cancer] were categorized as medullary, ulcerative, fungoid or scirrhous.