• n. 真菌，霉菌；菌类

来自fungus, 真菌，蘑菇，词源同sponge.

fungus

fungus: [16] Fungus was introduced into English in the early 16th century as a learned and more all-embracing alternative to mushroom. It was borrowed from Latin fungus, which probably came from Greek sphóngos ‘sponge’, source of English sponge.
=> sponge

fungus (n.)

1520s, "a mushroom," from Latin fungus "a mushroom, fungus;" used in English at first as a learned alternative to mushroom (funge was used in this sense late 14c.). The Latin word is believed to be cognate with (or derived from) Greek sphongos, the Attic form of spongos "sponge" (see sponge (n.)). "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, borrowed independently into Greek, Latin and Armenian in a form *sphong- ...." [de Vaan]

1. If you have a tree stump, check it for fungus.

要是有树桩的话，检查一下上面有没有长菌类。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Mushrooms are a type of fungus.

蘑菇是一种真菌.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. So how do you kill a fungus without harming its host?

问题在于,我们如何才能做到不伤害宿主只杀死真菌 呢 ?

来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术制药疫苗

4. 200,000 specimens of fungus are kept at the Komarov Botanical Institute.

有20万份菌类标本被保存在科马罗夫植物研究所。

来自辞典例句

5. This fungus can just be detected by the unaided eye.

这种真菌只用肉眼就能检查出.

来自辞典例句