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FUNGI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
Synonyms:
Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Fungi" is a kind of...):
kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)
Meronyms (members of "Fungi"):
fungus family (includes lichen families)
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
fungus order (the order of fungi)
division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota (slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista)
Phycomycetes; Phycomycetes group (a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems)
division Lichenes; Lichenes (comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi)
fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))
Domain member category:
Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))
annulus; skirt ((Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar)
saprophytic ((of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter)
Context examples:
A drug that is used to treat infections caused by fungi.
(Anidulafungin, NCI Dictionary)
Substances that treat systemic or topical infections caused by fungi.
(Antifungal Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
It was furred outside by a thick layer of dust, and damp and worms had eaten through the wood, so that a crop of livid fungi was growing on the inside of it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Drugs that treat infections caused by fungi.
(Antifungal Agent, NCI Dictionary)
A substance that is made naturally by some bacteria, fungi, and other organisms, and can also be made in the laboratory.
(Depsipeptide, NCI Dictionary)
The undesirable presence of microorganisms or microbes such as bacteria and fungi (yeasts and molds).
(Device Microbial Contamination Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
Nystatin is made by certain strains of bacteria and kills fungi by binding to their membranes.
(Nystatin, NCI Dictionary)
A quinone antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces rosa var. notoensis with activity against gram-positive bacteria, mycoplasmas and fungi.
(Nanafrocin, NCI Thesaurus)
Any beta-lactam antibiotic derived from Pencillium fungi with bactericidal activity.
(Penicillin Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)
Inflammation of the peritoneum due to infection by bacteria or fungi.
(Peritonitis, NCI Thesaurus)
