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Webster 1913 Edition
Fungia
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Fun′gi-a
,Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
fungus
mushroom: cf. F. fongie
.] (Zool.)
A genus of simple, stony corals; – so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.