Etymology

fungi

fun·gi
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Today it means: Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound. Full definition →

Latin fungī
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fungi · noun1

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfungī
  2. English todayfungi

Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).

fungi · noun2

See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.

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