fungal

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.

   Doctors determined that the cause of the itchy rash was fungal rather than bacterial.

   Synonyms: fungous, mycotic · Antonyms: nonfungal, nonmycotic

plural fungals

1. archaicA fungus.

   Fungals are, however, among the more useful friends of man as food, and among his most dangerous enemies as parasites, destroying the sources of his food.

   1856, John Lindley, Medical and Oeconomical Botany: With Numerous Illustrations, page 9

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   Fungals are distinguished from Lichens by their more fugitive nature, their more succulent texture, their want of a thallus or expansion independent of the part that bears the reproductive matter, […]

   1847, John Lindley, The Vegetable Kingdom: Second Edition, with Corrections, page 30