cordyceps
Any of the fungi of the genus Cordyceps, a genus of endoparasitoid sac fungi.

coremium
synnema

cramp balls
plural of cramp ball

craspeda
plural of craspedon.

craspedon
A border or fringe.

dead man's fingers
Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
The fingerlike gills of a crab.

distillery fungus
Synonym of whiskey fungus

dogend
Alternative form of dog-end.

dogends
plural of dogend

dolabra
An ancient axe or hatchet.

dolabrae
plural of dolabra

early blight
A disease of tomato and potato plants caused by the fungus Alternaria solani, producing distinctive bullseye-patterned leaf spots, stem lesions, fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on potato.

earth tongue
Any ascomycete fungus (more exactly its fruiting body) of the genus Geoglossum.

echoplasia
Physically or mentally tracing the contours of objects, usually obsessively.

endosporia
plural of endosporium

endosporium
An endospore.
An intine.

ephelides
plural of ephelis

ephelis
Synonym of freckle.

ergots
plural of ergot

erythroplasia
erythroplakia

excipula
plural of excipulum

exosporia
plural of exosporium

exosporium
The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.

false truffle
Any of various fungi that have underground fruiting bodies which resemble truffles.

fungi
Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
plural of fungus

fungus
Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

funguses
plural of fungus

fungusses
plural of fungus

fusaria
plural of fusarium

fusarium
Any of various fungi, of the genus Fusarium, some of which are pathogenic to plants and animals.

fusariums
plural of fusarium

histo
Clipping of Histoplasma.
Clipping of histoplasmosis.
Clipping of history.

hypochodroplasia
Misspelling of hypochondroplasia.

hypoderma
A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

hypodermata
plural of hypoderma

irene
The hydrocarbon formed by dehydration of an irone.

irenes
plural of irene

jelly babies
plural of jelly baby

laquearia
The panels of a coffered ceiling in Ancient Rome; a coffered ceiling.

leukoplasia
Leukoplakia.

lirula
A fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.
A fine raised line on a mollusk shell.
A tooth in the opercula of some bryozoans.

lirulae
plural of lirula

lirulas
plural of lirula

mazoplasia
mastoplasia.

mucor
The property of being mucid.

nail fungus
Synonym of onychomycosis.

nanotitania
nanoparticulate titania

neta
A politician.

netas
plural of neta

oidia
plural of oidium

oidium
A fragile spore produced by some fungi.
The fungus Erysiphe necator (= Uncinula necator), which produces powdery mildew in grapes.

olla
A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
A cinerary urn.

ollapodrida
Alternative form of olla podrida.

ollapodridas
plural of ollapodrida

ollas
plural of olla

paleocerebella
plural of paleocerebellum

penicillia
plural of penicillium

penicillium
Any of the blue-green fungi, of the genus Penicillium, that are used in the manufacture of cheeses, and are an important source of antibiotics.

penicilliums
plural of penicillium

perisporia
plural of perisporium

perisporium
the outer part of a spore wall which often disappears in older spores.

perisporiums
plural of perisporium

peziza
Any of the genus Peziza of saprophytic fungi.

pezizas
plural of peziza

pilidia
plural of pilidium

pilidium
The free-swimming larva of certain proboscis worms, somewhat resembling a deerstalker hat. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm undergoes development in its interior.

pleurostoma
Part of the subgenal area above the mandible of an insect

pleurostomata
plural of pleurostoma

pocula
plural of poculum

poculum
A drinking-cup used in Ancient Rome.

poikiloderma
An atrophy of the skin that is accompanied by a mottled pigmentation

poikilodermas
plural of poikiloderma

powdery mildew
A mildew affecting many important food crops, caused by fungi of the order Erysiphales.

propolis
An aromatic glue-like substance produced by honeybees from tree resin, waxes, and their own secretions, used in the construction of their hives.

pseudosclerotium
A tight mass of fungal mycelia and soil that resembles a true sclerotium

pyrenia
plural of pyrenium

pyrenium
The wall of the perithecium.

pyrenomycete
Synonym of sordariomycete.

pyrenomycetes
plural of pyrenomycete

ramularia
A disease of barley, more fully ramularia leaf spot, caused by fungi of the genus Ramularia

retiari
plural of retiarius

retiarii
plural of retiarius

retiarius
A gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.

rhynchosporium
Any of several fungi, of the genus Rhynchosporium, that are pathogenic to cereals.

ringworm
A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterized by ring-shaped discolored patches, covered by vesicles or scales.

ringworms
plural of ringworm

sclerote
Synonym of sclerotium.

sclerotes
plural of sclerote

sclerotium
A compact mass of hardened mycelium stored with reserve food material that, in some higher fungi such as ergot, becomes detached and remains dormant until a favourable opportunity for growth occurs.

scoleciasis
Infestation or disease caused by worms, catepillars, or moth larvae.

septoria
A fungus of the genus Septoria that causes numerous leaf spot diseases on crops.

septorias
plural of septoria

smellfungi
plural of smellfungus

smellfungus
A faultfinder, complainer, grumbler.

smellfunguses
plural of smellfungus

sordariomycetes
plural of sordariomycete

spring pin
In locomotives, an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.

stigmes
plural of stigme

swamp beacon
An inedible mushroom of species Mitrula paludosa, commonly found in swamps and bogs across parts of North America and Europe.

taeniola
One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

taeniolae
plural of taeniola

tar spot
A fungal disease affecting various plants and causing dark spots on leaves.

termitaria
plural of termitarium

thyridium
A spot in the wing veins of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera and Trichoptera.
A spot on both sides of the second abdominal tergite in ichneumonids

titania
Synonym of titanium dioxide.
Synonym of titanium dioxide.

torula
Any of a species of fungi, Cyberlindnera jadinii (synonym Candida utilis, basionym Torula utilis), related to the yeasts used in baking and brewing, sometimes used in processed food.
A genus of fungi, which in its current circumscription does not include (1).
A small torus.

torulae
plural of torula

torulas
plural of torula

trichophyton
Any member of the fungus genus Trichophyton.

trichophytons
plural of trichophyton

tympanis
plural of tympani

verticillium
Any of many fungi, of the genus Verticillium, that cause wilt in plants

vestigia
plural of vestigium

vestigium
A vestige.

white nose syndrome
A malady associated with the deaths of bats in North America, identifiable by a distinctive ring of fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings.