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(fŭng'gəl) or fun·gous (-gəs)
adj.

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of a fungus.
2. Caused by a fungus.

Pertaining to or caused by a fungus.

• f. disease — the three principal manifestations are the skin infections, the dermatophytoses, systemic infections such as coccidioidomycoses, and the mycotoxicoses, the fungal poisonings.
• f. hypersensitivity — may occur in animals; possibly the cause of fungal kerion.
• f. hyphae — see hypha.
• f. infection — see mycosis.
• f. mastitis
• f. slide culture — a method of culturing fungi that allows good visualization of conidia for identification purposes.
• f. toxins — there are a large number of known poisonous fungi, some of which grow on living plants, many of them visible on the outside of the plant, many of them growing inside the plant and therefore not visible. Many more grow on stored feed such as grain and hay. The best known fungal toxins include aflatoxin, citrinin, ergotamine, fumonisins, ergovaline, ochratoxin, phomopsin, slaframine, sporidesmin, trichothecenes (e.g. satratoxin, deoxynivalenol), zearalenone.

See words rhyming with "fungal."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - svampe-

Nederlands (Dutch)
schimmelachtig, veroorzaakt door schimmel

Français (French)
adj. - fongique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - pilzartig, Pilz-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μυκητώδης

Italiano (Italian)
fungoso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fungoso

Русский (Russian)
грибной

Español (Spanish)
adj. - fungino, fungal

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - svampig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
真菌的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 真菌的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 균의, 균에 의한, 균성의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - にわかに生ずる, 菌性の, キノコのような
n. - 急に生ずるもの, 菌類

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) فطري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פטרייתי‬

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