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Ferrugo :: Ferrugo (n.) A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color..

Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..

Swarmspore :: Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

Boletus :: Boletus (n.) A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous..

Saccharomycetes :: Saccharomycetes (n. pl.) A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

Peronate :: Peronate (a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

Pseudospore :: Pseudospore (n.) A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

Spermatium :: Spermatium (n.) One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

Brand Spore :: Brand spore () One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand..

Synarchy :: Synapticula (n.) One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals..

Hymenium :: Hymenium (n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom..

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia..

Fungi :: Fungi (pl. ) of Fungu.

Fungiform :: Fungiform (a.) Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) 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..

Yeast :: Yeast (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth..

Fungicide :: Fungicide (n.) Anything that kills fungi.

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