different between fungus vs mucoromycete

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/
• Rhymes: -????s

Noun

fungus (countable and uncountable, plural fungi or funguses)

1. (mycology) 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.
2. (now rare, pathology) A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Hyponyms

• (organism): ascomycete, basidiomycete, mold, mushroom, toadstool, yeast

Derived terms

Related terms

• fungous

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/, /?f??.??s/
• Hyphenation: fun?gus

Noun

fungus m (plural fungi)

1. (mycology) fungus, member of the kingdom Fungi

Related terms

• fungicidaal
• fungicide
• spons

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.?ys/

Noun

fungus m (plural fungus)

1. Alternative spelling of fongus

Latin

Etymology

Originally sfungus. Likely a loanword from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (spóngos) (whence Latin spongia) and Old Armenian ?????? (sunkn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?f????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?fu??us]

Noun

fungus m (genitive fung?); second declension

1. a mushroom; a fungus
2. a fungal growth or infection
3. a candle-snuff
4. (figuratively) dolt, idiot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fung?nus
• fung?sus
• fungulus

Related terms

• fungidus

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fungus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fungus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Noun

mucoromycete (plural mucoromycetes)

1. Any fungus of the class Mucoromycetes formerly considered part of the phylum Zygomycota, but now considered to be multiple unrelated orders whose placement among the fungi has not been determined.