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正面 7165.fungus
英 ['fʌŋgəs]美 ['fʌŋɡəs]

背面
释义:
n. 真菌,霉菌;菌类
例句:
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。

1. sponge => pong- (首字母s脱落) => fungus.2. 谐音“放菌丝”。
fungus 真菌来自fungus, 真菌,蘑菇,词源同sponge.
fungusfungus: [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.=> spongefungus (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]"

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