Fungus

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

手打:露西娅

• But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When it is heavy, rainy weather, they all come in, wet through; and at such times the vapours of the court are like those of a fungus-pit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is no fungus growth on the redwoods neither are the redwoods attacked by boring worms or other insects so common to other species of wood. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• On the night in question, I was sitting on the hidden seat reclaimed from fungi and mould, listening to what seemed the far-off sounds of the city. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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