The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
(Noun)
Synonyms:
kingdom Fungi
fungus kingdom
Fungi Sentence Examples
These two fungi usually grow in woods, but sometimes in hedges and in shady places in meadows, or even, as has been said, as invaders on mushroom-beds.
It is by many esteemed as the best of all the edible fungi found in Great Britain.
By far the greater number of spot-diseases are due to Fungi, as indicated by the numerous leaf-diseases described, but such is by no means always the case.
Many other fungi in addition to the fairy-ring champignon grow in circles, so that this habit must merely be taken with its other characters in cases of doubt.
Parasitic Fungi may be, as regards their direct action, purely locale.g.