fungousadj.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. l. 42 And chaf is bettir for hem than is donge, For they therof wol be right fungous [L. fungosae] stronge.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. vi. f. 137^v This viscous substance being soft thinne, fungous, and like unto a Spunge, is the Chamber of Melancholie.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 8 (margin) The tables of the bones of y^e head, whiche shut betwene them the Fungous substaunce.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xxxv. 613 We may be sure of raine, in case wee see a fungous substance or soot gathered about lamps and candle snuffs.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B8 Their lungs are single, fibrous, divided by pipes, very long and fungous.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 27 Rhubarb is a thick fungous Root.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Fungous,..full of Holes, like a Mushroom, Spongy.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 397 Twenty-five acres of spungy fungous bog.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 221 Placentæ either single and fungous, or double and thin.

1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. vii. 269 The base principles of modern building..some fungous wall of nascent rottenness that a thunder-shower soaks down.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. x. xix. 371 But if it so be that this fungous flesh come to such growth..as to equall the bignesse of an egge, it must be tyed and straite twitched, close to the roote with a silken thred.

1652 J. Hall tr. Longinus Περι Ὑψους 6 Fungous and empty inflations are evill in an Oration, as well as in a naturall body.

1668 Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 614 What the cause may be of that fungous Excressence, or why Horses are peculiarly obnoxious to it.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at White honey Charge Verdigrease or Vitriols keep down the growth of proud fungous Flesh.

1790 J. Skinner tr. A. N. R. Sanches Hist. Investig. Venereal Dis. vii. 71 The Pian (called in England the Yaws) is endemic on the western coast of Africa. It discovers itself by fungous ulcers over the whole surface of the skin, and often resists the most powerful remedies.

1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 207 The following case of fungous excrescence from the tongue.

1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 669 Desault mistook a fungous tumour of the bladder for a calculus.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 275 This form of cancer may produce very vascular fungous growths.

1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Feb. 33/1 Scorbutic stomatitis, fungous, foul and bleeding.

1986 Zeitschr. f. Papyrologie u. Epigraphik 66 150 The powers of..other metals..in the treatment of fungous ulcers, spreading ulcers, abscesses, and putrid sores.

2008 Caribbean Q. 54 18 Yaws..is a highly contagious disease characterized by..disfiguring sores that can develop into fungous tubercles and ulcers.

?1835 G. Birkbeck Lect. Preserv. Timber 16 The germs of various fungous bodies, of the Boletus, Agaricus, Lycoperdon, Mucor, &c.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. xiv. 141 An afternoon which had a fungous smell out of doors.

1914 C. W. Burkett et al. Agric. for Beginners (rev. ed.) vi. 134 This black dust consists of the spores of a tiny fungous plant.

1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors ix. 218 In 1597 the medical faculty at Marburg..came to the conclusion that it was due..to eating bread made from rye blighted with a fungous growth called ergot.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 22 July 172/2 Our experience with the operative treatment of pulmonary fungous infections, though limited, has been varied and interesting.

2013 Alive (Nexis) 1 Nov. Mangoes pickled in adulterated mustard oil are sure to turn fungous in a few days.