Fungi

See also: fungi, fungí, and fungi-

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin fungus (“mushroom”).

Proper noun

Fungi

  1. A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – mushrooms and funguses, over 100,000 species of organisms that are similar to plants but do not contain chlorophyll.
    • 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts (in English), page 811:
      It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
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