FUNGUS in a Sentence

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Example sentences for FUNGUS, such as:
1. This plant that has been used as traditional medicines is a kind of fungus.
2. Varenka got up while Masha picked the fungus, breaking it into two white halves.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FUNGUS
fungus
 n.  an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia
Classic Sentence:
1  "That one too, near the twig," she pointed out to little Masha a little fungus, split in half across its rosy cap by the dry grass from under which it thrust itself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
2  Varenka got up while Masha picked the fungus, breaking it into two white halves.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
3  And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  This plant that has been used as traditional medicines is a kind of fungus.