All fungi synonyms

noun fungi

• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• mildew — Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by a cottony, usually whitish coating on the surface of affected parts, caused by any of various fungi.
• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
• canker — A canker is something evil that spreads and affects things or people.
• pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• fungus — any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae.
• infestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
• sludge — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
• mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
• goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
• gunk — any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
• mucus — a viscous, slimy mixture of mucins, water, electrolytes, epithelial cells, and leukocytes that is secreted by glands lining the nasal, esophageal, and other body cavities and serves primarily to protect and lubricate surfaces.
• curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
• pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
• dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• withering — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
• bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
• sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
• contamination — the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
• woe — grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
• rot — to undergo decomposition; decay.
• corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
• pollution — the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
• cancer — Cancer is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a crab. People who are born approximately between the 21st of June and the 22nd of July come under this sign.
• outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
• swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
• polyp — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
• lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
• parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
• mole — a spicy sauce flavored with chocolate, usually served with turkey or chicken.
• fibrous — containing, consisting of, or resembling fibers.
• wen — wynn.
• thickening — a making or becoming thick.
• cancroid — resembling a cancerous growth
• mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
• scum — a film or layer of foul or extraneous matter that forms on the surface of a liquid.
• ooze — (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
• glop — unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
• froth — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
• foam — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
• catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
• leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
• ferment — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
• eyesore — A thing that is very ugly, especially a building that disfigures a landscape.
• evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
• tumour — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
• tumor — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
• excrescence — A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality.