Synonyms:
Fungi, kingdom_Fungi, fungus_kingdom
Meaning: the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
Usage examples
But the subterranean vegetation was not confined to these fungi. Farther on rose groups of tall trees of colourless foliage and easy to recognise.
He did not satisfy himself as to just the exact species it belonged to, but he predicted that similar fungi might spring up within twenty-four hours--
Thus it is in the clearing of our American woodlands; where we burn down a forest of stately pines, a progeny of dwarf oaks start up in their place; and we never see the prostrate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birth to a whole tribe of fungi.