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funguslike

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fun´gus`like`
adj.1.resembling a fungus or fungi.
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Adj.1.funguslike - resembling fungi
fungoid


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It is caused by the aquatic funguslike organism Pythium insidiosum (kingdom Straminipila, phylum Oomycota, class Oomycetes) (1).
Human Pythiosis, Brazil by Marques, Silvio Alencar / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The funguslike microbe that has swiftly killed coast live oaks and other trees in northern California and Oregon has by passed containment measures and turned up in nurseries to the south, officials announced earlier this month.
Sudden oak death jumps quarantine by Milius, Susan / Science News
It has been more than 150 years since the Irish potato famine, when the funguslike disease called blight annihilated the staple food for millions of people.
Armed with a new gene, spuds fend off blight. (Stout Potatoes) by McDonagh, S. / Science News
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