fungoid
adjective, noun
fungoid is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-G-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fungoid mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a fungus.
He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
noun
- 1
A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fungoid
- more fungoid comparative
- most fungoid superlative
- fungoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fungoid?
Fungoid appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).
Fungoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense resembling a fungus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fongoïde, fongiforme |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fungoid come from?
From fungus + -oid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).