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fungus - use in sentences
Converse of subject
- cause: Athlete's Foot is caused by a fungus that attacks the sole of the foot or the skin between the toes.
Adjective modifier
- filamentous: There are several different types of these substances; all of them are produced by filamentous fungi.
- arbuscular: Often - but not always - the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi also produce large, swollen vesicles, which are thought to contain nutrient reserves.
- edible: Also, vastly increasing my knowledge of edible woodland fungi!
- entomopathogenic: Can entomopathogenic fungi be used to produce a cheap organic pesticide for sustainable malaria control?
Converse of object
- destroy: Nizoral works by destroying the fungus that causes the infection.
Adjective modifier
- mycorrhizal: In orchid seeds, the nutrients required for germination are provided by a mycorrhizal fungus with which it forms an association.
Noun used with modifier
- wood-rotting: Role of fungi as a carbon resource cycling: wood-rotting fungi.
Modifies a noun
- aspergillus: The soil and plants inside your house and outside are a source of the fungus aspergillus which grows in decaying vegetation.
- gnat: They were sitting in standing stagnant water when " rescued " from Home Depot, and have tons of fungus gnats.
- phytophthora: In 1845 the potato blight - caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans - appeared in the United Kingdom causing great hardship for many people.
- infestans: In 1845 the potato blight - caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans - appeared in the United Kingdom causing great hardship for many people.
- fusarium: The RR cultivars were susceptible to sudden death from infection by the fungus Fusarium solani.
Noun used with modifier
- take-all: Fig 9.11 A wheat root at different magnifications, infected by the take-all fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis.
- toenail: Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash.
- honey: Treatment There are no chemical cures for honey fungus.
- rot: Growth: 40 ft in 20 years Can be very susceptible to dry rot fungus.
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