Fungia

Fun´gi`a

n.

1.

(Zool.) A genus of simple, stony corals; - so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Fungia - a genus comprising the usual mushroom corals genus Fungia coelenterate genus - a genus of coelenterates Madreporaria, order Madreporaria - stony corals