fungistatic
adjective, noun
fungistatic is an adjective meaning “That inhibits the growth and reproduction of fungi but does not kill off their population” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-G-I-S-T-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fungistatic mean?
adjective
- 1
That inhibits the growth and reproduction of fungi but does not kill off their population.
noun
- 1
An agent (drug or other substance) that is fungistatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fungistatic
- more fungistatic comparative
- most fungistatic superlative
- fungistatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fungistatic?
Fungistatic appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fungistatic come from?
International scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from fungi- + -static = fungistasis + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).