a. and sb. [ad. mod.L. fungālis, f. L. fungus FUNGUS.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to a fungus; of the nature of a fungus. Fungal Alliance: Lindley’s name for the group of fungi.

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1835.  Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 119. The Fungal Alliance.

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1874.  M. Cooke, Fungi (1875), i. 16. The Rev. J. M. Crombie has therefore our sympathies in the remark with which his summary of the gonidia controversy closes, in which he characterizes it as a ‘sensational romance of lichenology,’ of the ‘unnatural union between a captive algal damsel and a tyrant fungal master.’

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1882.  Quain’s Med. Dict., 523. Assuming the filaments to be of undoubted fungal origin.

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1887.  Pall Mall G., 16 June, 5/2. The peculiar parasite or fungal formation, for the removal of which he has had to undergo an operation.

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  B.  sb. A fungus.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., 156. Fungi—Fungals.

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1849.  Sidney, in Jrnl. Roy. Agric. Soc., X. II. 382. Fungals most commonly grow upon animal or vegetable substances in a state of decomposition.

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1874.  M. Cooke, Fungi (1875), ii. 36. Many of them are now proved to be imperfect in themselves, and only forms or conditions of other fungals.

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