Meanings
fungi1
fungi2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.
Origin
fungi · noun
- Latinfungī
- Englishfungi
Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →fungi · noun
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.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish fungi
- fungistyle of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fungi
All rhymes →Cite this entry
fungi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungi
“fungi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungi. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fungi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungi.
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