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21Carnivorous fungus — Carnivorous fungi or predaceous fungi are fungi that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and digesting microscopic or other minute animals. [Pramer, D. 1964. Nematode trapping fungi. Science 144: 382–388.] More than 200 species… …
22coral fungus — noun any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral • Hypernyms: ↑fungus • Hyponyms: ↑club fungus • Member Holonyms: ↑Clavariaceae, ↑family Clavariaceae …
23mouth fungus — a bacterial infection (Flexibacter columnaris or Flavobacterium columnare)(not a fungus) causing a cotton wool like growth usually in the mouth region. A rapid infection, often fatal, first seen as light grey marks. Usually occurs in aquaria with …
24hairy fungus beetle — ▪ insect any of approximately 200 described species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are small, oval, and hairy. These beetles are commonly found on shelf fungi, under bark, or in rotting plant material. Hairy fungus beetles are… …
25jelly fungus — noun a jelly like fungus in the class Heterobasidiomycetes …
26bracket fungus — noun a fungus which forms shelf like projections on the trunks of trees. [Order Aphyllophorales: many species.] …
27bracket fungus — n. any of various fleshy or woody basidiomycetous fungi having fruiting bodies growing like shelves from the trunk or branches of trees …
28black fungus — noun Etymology: so called from the production of dark excrescences that look like charred spots : fire fungus 1 …
29tooth fungus — /ˈtuθ fʌŋgəs/ (say toohth fungguhs) noun (plural tooth fungi /ˈtuθ fʌŋgi/ (say toohth funggee) or tooth funguses) any of various basidiomycetes with tooth like or spine like projections and with a soft or leathery texture …
30rhi´zoid|like´ — rhi|zoid «RY zoyd», adjective, noun. –adj. = rootlike. –n. one of the rootlike filaments by which a moss, fern, liverwort, or fungus is attached to the substratum. –rhi´zoid|like´, adjective …
