Antonyms for fungi
ˈfʌn dʒaɪ, ˈfʌŋ gaɪfun·gi

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1. Fungi, kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdomnoun

   the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants

   Synonyms:
   fungus kingdom, kingdom Fungi

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1. funginoun

   Synonyms:
   Thallophytes (toadstools, mushrooms, etc.)

   Associated words:
   spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist

How to use fungi in a sentence?

1. Matthew Kasson:

   Viruses have this way of suppressing the immune response, and some of the drugs we’re using to combat the viruses are also having an effect where they’re making it easier for fungi to invade.

2. Barney Long:

   Our current list of lost species is over 2,000 and they cover the whole breadth of flora, fauna and fungi across the world.

3. Andreas Essig:

   Horse dung is a very rich substrate that harbours a diversity of micro-organisms, including fungi and bacteria, now these micro-organisms are in a constant competition for nutrients and space and it's therefore very likely to find potent antibiotics in such an environment, which are used by the different organisms to inhibit the growth of the competitors.

4. Matthew Fisher:

   What’s changing is that more people that are exposed have those high risk factors. We have aging populations, and we were using a lot of chemicals in the environment which are forcing fungi to adapt, and our clinical antifungals are being degraded by antimicrobial resistance.

5. Mike Super:

   What's nice about proteins like this fcMBL from the innate immune system is that they bind the sugars which are part of the cell wall of the pathogens. They bind to the cell wall of bacteria, of fungi, of many viruses and many parasites and they bind to toxins as well.

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