fungus

• n. 真菌，黴菌；菌類

來自fungus, 真菌，蘑菇，詞源同sponge.

fungus

fungus: [16] Fungus was introduced into English in the early 16th century as a learned and more all-embracing alternative to mushroom. It was borrowed from Latin fungus, which probably came from Greek sphóngos ‘sponge’, source of English sponge.
=> sponge

fungus (n.)

1520s, "a mushroom," from Latin fungus "a mushroom, fungus;" used in English at first as a learned alternative to mushroom (funge was used in this sense late 14c.). The Latin word is believed to be cognate with (or derived from) Greek sphongos, the Attic form of spongos "sponge" (see sponge (n.)). "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, borrowed independently into Greek, Latin and Armenian in a form *sphong- ...." [de Vaan]

1. If you have a tree stump, check it for fungus.

要是有樹樁的話，檢查一下上麵有沒有長菌類。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Mushrooms are a type of fungus.

蘑菇是一種真菌.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. So how do you kill a fungus without harming its host?

問題在於,我們如何才能做到不傷害宿主隻殺死真菌 呢 ?

來自英漢非文學 - 生命科學 - 生物技術製藥疫苗

4. 200,000 specimens of fungus are kept at the Komarov Botanical Institute.

有20萬份菌類標本被保存在科馬羅夫植物研究所。

來自辭典例句

5. This fungus can just be detected by the unaided eye.

這種真菌隻用肉眼就能檢查出.

來自辭典例句