Funghi
Channel: Say it in Italian
Date: 19/11/2012

Funghi are the more familiar mushrooms and as well includes eukaryotic microorganisms such as yeasts, moldsanimals etc. (Fungus).  So Funghi (Mushrooms) describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.