Meanings
plural fungophiles
- alternativeinformalnonstandardAlternative form of fungiphile.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Synchronically, by surface analysis, as if putative *fungo- + -phile, in morphologic parallel with fungiphile as fungi- + -phile; *fungo- is nonstandard, but a putative assertion of it is predictable as something that will periodically arise naturally among speakers by apparent analogy with how hundreds of other ISV combining forms containing o are formed (compare -o-, and compare also lexophile); diachronically, the word fungophile has been independently re-created (and googled) many times by individual speakers and writers, some of whom have used it in capitalized proper noun form to name their own mycophilic endeavors (e.g., as a screenname, website title, or otherwise); but its common noun sense is now incontrovertibly attested many times over, albeit informal and nonstandard.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
fungophile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungophile
“fungophile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungophile. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fungophile,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungophile.
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