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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fungal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bacterial/viral/fungal infection (=caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus)
▪ Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attack
▪ Disease caused by fungal attacks is kept at bay with the prompt removal of both infected and damaged material.
▪ Rot in Timber Timber decay which is not owed to insect action is normally the result of fungal attack.
▪ Therefore, in a sound, dry building there is no need to fear fungal attack.
disease
▪ An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought.
▪ Spraying is necessary, particularly against fungal diseases, to have a decent harvest of nice-looking fruit every year.
▪ Similarly, fungal diseases show characteristic effects that reveal both presence and identity.
▪ The fungal disease affects wheat, durum wheat and triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.
▪ Some plants already possess genetic resistance to attacks by insect pests while others resist certain fungal diseases.
▪ A: Perhaps your grapes are suffering from black rot, a fungal disease.
infection
▪ This greyish film can be mistaken for fungal infection.
▪ This is a fungal infection of the brain.
▪ By mixing the varieties intimately within the field, the spread of a fungal infection can be drastically slowed.
▪ Bacterial and fungal infections almost always occur at the site of an earlier wound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A: Perhaps your grapes are suffering from black rot, a fungal disease.
▪ Histoplasmosis is caused by fungal spores that are usually inhaled.
▪ Other forms of fungal decay of timber in buildings are relatively unimportant because they are not able to spread to sound wood.
▪ Sections were examined by light microscopy for bacterial, protozoal, fungal, and viral enteric pathogens.
▪ Some plants already possess genetic resistance to attacks by insect pests while others resist certain fungal diseases.
▪ Spraying is necessary, particularly against fungal diseases, to have a decent harvest of nice-looking fruit every year.
▪ The fungal disease affects wheat, durum wheat and triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.
▪ These are, however, even inserted at positions identical to those of corresponding fungal and liverwort intervening sequences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fungal

Fungal \Fun"gal\, a. Of or pertaining to fungi.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fungal

1835, from Modern Latin fungalis, from fungus (see fungus). As a noun, "a fungus" (1845). Earlier adjective was fungic 1804.

Wiktionary
fungal

a. Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.

WordNet
fungal

adj. of or relating to fungi [syn: fungous]

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Usage examples of "fungal".

Tons of predigested fungal pap went into the slick blind jaws at one end.

They had their own fungal gardens to refresh the air, stocked with the fungus they liked best, and digested by a worker they kept drugged for their own food use.

She worked with biochemical signals in the lab: with plants that released ethylene after wounding, to warn other plants that an insect or fungal attack was on the way.

He could hear Harman ripping flesh and chewing in the fungal darkness behind him.

Tapers of slime ran down the walls, fungal growths blooming from the cracks.

A sticky kind of fungal mould slimed every leaf for three metres above the ground.

Not warehouse dust, or lab dust, or the smells of fungal gels or spores.

Those were the two antibiotics most effective against fungal infections.

At first she seemed free of any fungal growths but then he noticed the long slits running down her limbs and torso.

Bacteria, microscopic seeds, and, of course, fungal spores and fragments of the thread-like hyphae that make up a fungus.

As the camera panned over them Slocock was shocked to see that many of them showed signs of fungal infection.

Rumor has it that at least three cabinet ministers have fallen victim to the fungal plague but confirmation has not been forthcoming.

None of them, Wilson saw, displayed any external sign of fungal infection.

The surviving two volunteers on Megacrine have both succumbed to fungal infection since you left.

The built-up areas they were passing through were totally unrecognizable beneath their surreal fungal coverings and it was only when they saw a barely visible sign for Denham that they knew where they were.