psilocybes
plural of psilocybe

puckball
A puffball fungus.

puckballs
plural of puckball

puckfist
A puffball (Lycoperdon giganteum).

puckfists
plural of puckfist

pulvinone
An aromatic hydroxy-butenolide, derivatives of which occur naturally in certain fungi and moulds.

pulvinones
plural of pulvinone

pulvisculus
The powder contained in the spore-cases of certain fungi.

pycnia
plural of pycnium

pycnium
The body of a fungus that produces pycniospores

pycnoconidia
plural of pycnoconidium

questinol
An anthraquinone derivative found in certain fungi.

ramoconidia
plural of ramoconidium

reishi
The bracket fungus (mushroom) (Ganoderma lucidum and sometimes Ganoderma tsugae).
An extract of this fungus.

reishis
plural of reishi

rhizohypha
A single hyphal strand on the thallus underside that serves as an attachment organ.

rhizomorph
A rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi

rhizomorphs
plural of rhizomorph

roccella
Any of a group of lichens of genus Roccella, especially Rocella tinctoria from which litmus is extracted.

roccellas
plural of roccella

rollrim
A mushroom with a round, folded-over cap-edge, as those of the genus Paxillus.

roridin
Any of a group of trichothecenes produced by several fungi

roridins
plural of roridin

roseotoxin
A toxic cyclodepsipeptide present in the fungus Trichothecium roseum

rota
A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

rotas
plural of rota

rotta
Alternative form of rota.

rottas
plural of rotta

sac fungi
plural of sac fungus

saccharomycete
A yeast fungus
A yeast of the genus Saccharomycetes

saccharopepsin
A pepsin present in yeast

sciarid
Any in the family Sciaridae of fungus gnats.

sciarids
plural of sciarid

scopularide
Any of a group of bioactive cyclodepsipeptides present in marine fungi of the genus Scopulariopsis, of possible medical use.

scopularides
plural of scopularide

sebacinoid
Any fungus of the order Sebacinales

sebacinoids
plural of sebacinoid

serinocyclin
Any of a group of cyclic heptapeptides present in some fungi

serinocyclins
plural of serinocyclin

sirenin
A sexual attraction pheromone in some fungi of the genus Allomyces.

smokeball
A puffball fungus.
A ball or case containing a substance that produces thick smoke when it burns.

smokeballs
plural of smokeball

sorus
Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.

spermatia
plural of spermatium

spermatium
One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

spherulin
An antigen, is derived from the fungus Coccidioides, used as coccidioidin.

spherulins
plural of spherulin

sporangiospore
A spore produced by a sporangium (in many fungi, such as zygomycetes).

sporangiospores
plural of sporangiospore

sporodochia
plural of sporodochium

sporodochium
A small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitized by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (Deuteromycota, Hyphomycetes). It bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed

sporophore
A spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores.
A sporophyte, or spore-producing plant.

sporophores
plural of sporophore

stachybotrylactam
The lactam mycotoxin 3,4'-dihydroxy-4,4,7,8a-tetramethylspiro[2,3,4a,5,6,7-hexahydro-1H-naphthalene-8,2'-7,8-dihydro-3H-furo[2,3-e]isoindole]-6'-one produced by fungus of the genus Stachybotrys

stachybotryotoxicosis
Toxicosis caused by the fungi Stachybotrys.

stachylysin
A hemolysin produced by the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum

statismospore
A spore, such as a puffball, that is not actively discharged from the fungal fruiting body.

statismospores
plural of statismospore

sterigmatocystin
A dermatoxin found in the fungus genus Aspergillus.

sterigmatocystins
plural of sterigmatocystin

stinkhorn
Any fungus of the order Phallales, which produce a foul-scented, rod-shaped mushroom.

stipe
The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
The trunk of a tree.
The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm

stype
Obsolete spelling of stipe.

stypes
plural of stype

suberosis
A type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis usually caused by the fungus Penicillium glabrum after exposure to moldy cork dust.

synhymenium
A hypostomial frange.

talactoferrin
A recombinant human lactoferrin produced by the fungus Aspergillus niger or its close relatives that has potential antineoplastic and immunomodulating activities

teleomorph
The final, sexually reproductive form in the life cycle of any fungus of the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.

teleomorphs
plural of teleomorph

tentoxin
A natural cyclic tetrapeptide produced by the phytopathogenic fungus Alternaria alternata

tentoxins
plural of tentoxin

teonanacatl
The psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.

terpendole
Any of a group of diterpene indoles produced by the fungus Chaunopycnis alba

terpendoles
plural of terpendole

thromboemboli
plural of thromboembolus

thromboembolus
A thrombus that has embolized; an embolus of the thrombotic type, which is the most common type.

thromboemboluses
plural of thromboembolus

tremella
Any fungus of the genus Tremella.

tremellas
plural of tremella

trichoderm
Any soil fungus of the genus Trichoderma.

trichoderms
plural of trichoderm

trichothecene
Any of many related mycotoxins produced by pathogenic fungi species of the genus Fusarium.

trichothecenes
plural of trichothecene

trub
The layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation.
A truffle

unterhefe
The yeast that forms at the bottom of the vat.

uredinology
The mycological study of rust fungi.

uredosori
plural of uredosorus

usnea
Any lichen of the genus Usnea.

usneae
plural of usnea

usneas
plural of usnea

vellera
plural of vellus

vellus
The stipe of certain fungi.

verrucarin
Any of a group of trichothecenes produced by Fusarium fungi

verrucarins
plural of verrucarin

violet root rot
A plant disease caused by the fungus Helicobasidium purpureum.

wallemiomycete
Any fungus of the class Wallemiomycetes

wallemiomycetes
plural of wallemiomycete

webcap
A mushroom of the agaric genus Cortinarius, many of which are highly poisonous.

wishi
maitake, hen of the woods (mushroom)

woodwart
A sac fungus of genus Hypoxylon or related genera.

xenoma
A growth caused by various protists and fungi, most notably microsporidia.

xenomas
plural of xenoma

xenomata
plural of xenoma

zeranol
A mycotoxin derived from Fusarium fungi used as a nonsteroidal oestrogen agonist.

zygomycotan
Any fungus of the division Zygomycota

zygomycotans
plural of zygomycotan

zymolectin
A lectin present in yeast.

zymolectins
plural of zymolectin

bay bolete
An edible, pored mushroom (Imleria badia), found in Europe and North America.

bitter bolete
Any fungus of species Tylopilus felleus.

bitter boletes
plural of bitter bolete

bolet
Alternative form of bolete.

bolete
A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order Boletales, especially those of genus Boletus, many of which are prized for their flavour; any species of said order that produces such a fruiting body.

boletes
plural of bolete

boleti
plural of boletus

boletus
An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.

boletuses
plural of boletus

butterball
A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
An overweight person.
A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.
A turkey.

butterballs
plural of butterball

cep
An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).

cepage
Alternative form of cépage.

cepages
plural of cepage

cepe
Alternative form of cep.

cepes
plural of cepe

ceps
plural of cep

dermatosclerosis
Synonym of scleroderma.