fungoid

From fungus +‎ -oid.

fungoid (comparative more fungoid, superlative most fungoid)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.

   Hyponyms: mushroomoid, mushroomlike, mushroomy; mushroom-shaped, fungiform, mycomorphic

   Coordinate terms: fungal, fungous, mycotic; nonfungal, nonmycotic

   • 1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:

     He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.

fungoid (plural fungoids)

1. A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
   • G. K. Chesterton

     He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.

Borrowed from French fongoïde.

fungoid m or n (feminine singular fungoidă, masculine plural fungoizi, feminine and neuter plural fungoide)

1. fungoid, fungiform