What is "fungoid"

Usage examples of "fungoid".

He turned then and noticed the open door he obviously had, in his befuddlement, neglected to close, let alone lock, the private idiocies, discomfitures of these last few hours on public exhibit for hallway creeps dragging their fungoid flesh to and from the reeking stall opposite the stairwell, how acute his embarrassment had his faculties been intact, when would this life ever mend?

I felt that those walls and over-hanging gables of mildewed brick and fungoid plaster and timber - with eyelike, diamond-paned windows that leered - could hardly desist from advancing and crushing me .

The mycologist van Schoening had come from Moscow, a consultant brought in to study the fungoid vegetation.

The effects of scurvy were manifested on every hand, and in all its various stages, from the muddy, pale complexion, pale gums, feeble, languid muscular motions, lowness of spirits, and fetid breath, to the dusky, dirty, leaden complexion, swollen features, spongy, purple, livid, fungoid, bleeding gums, loose teeth, oedematous limbs, covered with livid vibices, and petechiae spasmodically flexed, painful and hardened extremities, spontaneous hemorrhages from mucous canals, and large, illconditioned, spreading ulcers covered with a dark purplish fungus growth.

Nothing of the giant trees was visible above ground except heavy fungoid leaves, cossetting the earth with their twisted growth pattern.

It will blind all eye-bearing fungoids without killing them-and the damage is probably irreversible.

We agents are realistic, not recriminatory-otherwise we would have brought you to accounting for the damage done by the three fungoids back at the Earth station, and particularly for the one that escaped entirely.

When we realized the potentialities of your fungoids, this military unit was substituted.

The ocean is not a conducive habitat, either, since the fungoids are land-based.

It will blind all eye-bearing fungoids without killing them—and the damage is probably irreversible.

We agents are realistic, not recriminatory—otherwise we would have brought you to accounting for the damage done by the three fungoids back at the Earth station, and particularly for the one that escaped entirely.

At a slower pace moved solemn slug-like creatures, blue-green with ebony mantles, which Gundersen recognized as the mobile fungoids of the highlands—plants that crawled from place to place in quest of fallen boughs or a lightning-shattered tree-trunk.

The mobile fungoids crawled everywhere, devouring the scum that covered all interior surfaces of the building and leaving narrow glistening tracks behind.

The fungoids were wrapped and baled here and sent downriver on their voyage toward the market.

Grayish algae sprouted in the furrows of their skins, and the mobile fungoids roamed their bodies, feeding on this growth.