Fungi

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·pl of Fungus.

II. Fungi ·noun ·pl ·see Fungus.

III. Fungi ·add. ·noun ·pl A group of thallophytic plants of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes, or so-called algal fungi.