FUNGI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fungi mean? 

• FUNGI (noun)
  The noun FUNGI has 1 sense:

1. the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

  Familiarity information: FUNGI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNGI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi

Hypernyms ("Fungi" is a kind of...):

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Meronyms (members of "Fungi"):

fungus family (includes lichen families)

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

fungus order (the order of fungi)

division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota (slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista)

Phycomycetes; Phycomycetes group (a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems)

division Lichenes; Lichenes (comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi)

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

division Eumycota; Eumycota (true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi))

Domain member category:

Tremella reticulata (a jelly fungus with an erect whitish fruiting body and a highly variable shape (sometimes resembling coral fungi))

annulus; skirt ((Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar)

saprophytic ((of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter)

 Context examples 

A synthetic or semi-synthetic beta-lactam antibiotic derived from Acremonium (Cephalosporium) fungi with bactericidal activity.

(Cephalosporin Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

Microorganisms, bacteria, fungi and other organisms.

(CDISC SDTM Microorganism Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A laboratory test to check for bacteria, yeast, fungi, or other microorganisms in the blood.

(Blood culture, NCI Dictionary)

A rare genetic disorder with a predominantly X-linked recessive pattern of inheritance resulting in impaired phagocytic clearance of bacteria and fungi.

(Chronic Granulomatous Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent may also disrupt DNA repair, cell division signals and mitotic spindles as well as some elements of intracellular transport in susceptible fungi.

(Ciclopirox Olamine Lotion, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to providing a key part of the response to bacterial infection, the complement system can be involved in the response to fungi, viruses and protists.

(Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A monohalogenated 8-hydroxyquinoline with activity against bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.

(Cloxyquin, NCI Thesaurus)

A polysaccharide isolated from the cell walls of bacteria, plants, and fungi with immunostimulant and antineoplastic activities.

(Beta-glucan, NCI Thesaurus)

A phylum of fungi whose members are commonly known as the sac fungi.

(Ascomycota, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug that treats infections caused by fungi.

(Antifungal, NCI Dictionary)